Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 2 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 3 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 4 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 5 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 6 | send up the survey to old Hughey , he , he 'll give you a few . |
| 7 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 8 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 9 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 10 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |
| 11 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
| 12 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 13 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 14 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 15 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 16 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 17 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |
| 18 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 19 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 20 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 21 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 22 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 23 | Identifying a discharge as ‘ polluting ’ is the first step in opening up the sequence of decisions to be made about modes of control . |
| 24 | Moreover , the obvious success of MDC in opening up the docklands for mass market consumption has also effectively restrained local opposition . |
| 25 | Such international collaboration is now continuing to locate the gene itself , opening up the prospect of devising a test to find out which women are at risk of developing the disease . |
| 26 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 27 | In opening up the debate to the floor , Inez stressed hopes for democratic discussion , respect for differing and varying views . |
| 28 | In the series ‘ Show Girls ’ she depicts the showgirl and stripper with the intention of opening up the debate around the fetishised female image and the male voyeur . |
| 29 | In what he called ‘ a new architecture for a new era ’ , Mr Baker outlined closer co-operation between Western Europe and the US which would bind the West closer together while at the same time ‘ opening up the doors to the East ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It acknowledges the success of the JY team in opening up the world of current affairs for ordinary people . |