Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 2 | I am prepared to be convinced that that is not the case and that the Government mean well and intend to try to open up educational opportunity to everyone , no matter their class background . |
| 3 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 4 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 5 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 6 | But it does suggest that racism is too deeply embedded in the whole experience of growing up working class to be the sole responsibility of skins . |
| 7 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 8 | The analysis of the last section has shown that synonyms will slow up direct access to records on average . |
| 9 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 10 | Although by early 1945 Japan 's power was weakening considerably , her forces continued to put up still resistance to the American advances in the Pacific . |
| 11 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 12 | If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution . |
| 13 | He strengthened American forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf ; stepped up military aid to Pakistan ; imposed an embargo on wheat exports to the Soviet Union ; and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 . |
| 14 | In general , ten welcomed the proposal , including from Argentina ( ‘ I think this type of study is necessary ’ ) , of the Christian Conference of Asia ( ‘ I join others who have welcomed the idea of linking up theological thinking to development issues . ’ ) |
| 15 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 16 | It was a gentle pull up Lovely Seat to the cairn , but again the June winds of our English summer were too cold for anything but a brief look over to Shunner and south to Dodd Fell and the distinct hump of Ingleborough before taking a compass bearing and walking off towards Hardraw . |
| 17 | For those with energy to spare , another path runs up Rocky Valley to the Bronze Age labyrinth — its rock carvings are 3,500 years old . |