Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 3 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 4 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 5 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 6 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 7 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 8 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 9 | Only when the shipper parts with his original is he deemed to have given up control of the goods . |
| 10 | " I Charles Gillingham Hamilton M.A. of Stockport in the Borough of Stockport and County of Chester , Clerk , a Clergyman of the Church of England , in priest 's orders and a Graduate of the University of Dublin declare that I will discharge always to the best of my ability the duties of Headmaster of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , and that in case I shall he removed from my Office I will thereupon relinquish all claim to the Office and its future emoluments and I will deliver up possession of the School and my residence to the Trustees and that it shall be lawful for them in the same case without ejectment or other legal process to take possession of my residence and remove myself and my effects therefrom . " |
| 11 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |
| 12 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 13 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 14 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 15 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 16 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 17 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 18 | But none of them will be giving up hope of the £102,000 top prize — and nor will Nick Faldo on 12 under and Seve Ballesteros on 11 under . |
| 19 | The most likely outcome of such action would be to speed up privatisation of the service , since the Government could hardly empty the jails , and somebody would have to supervise the inmates . |
| 20 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 21 | The cabinet announced 48 measures to speed up integration of the country 's immigrant population , including a permanent inter-ministerial committee on integration . |
| 22 | Eleven Halstead Rotaract members cleaned up part of the River Colne , between the mill and the town 's High Street before having a birthday party — in the middle of the flowing water . |
| 23 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 24 | Open account : Under this payment method the exporter gives up control of the goods to the importer and receives debt settlement at a later date under the contract 's terms . |
| 25 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 26 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 27 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 28 | The title of Rubin Rabinovitz 's study , The Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel , 1950–1960 ( 1967 ) , sums up part of the mood of the decade . |
| 29 | The mean follow up interval of the remaining 73 ( 25 men ; 48 women ) was 6.1 years ( range 4 to 12 ) . |
| 30 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |