Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 11 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 12 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 13 | Identifying a discharge as ‘ polluting ’ is the first step in opening up the sequence of decisions to be made about modes of control . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In opening up the debate to the floor , Inez stressed hopes for democratic discussion , respect for differing and varying views . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It acknowledges the success of the JY team in opening up the world of current affairs for ordinary people . |
| 19 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 20 | Measures aimed at opening up the economy to foreign investment and the privatization of state companies continued apace throughout November . |
| 21 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 22 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 23 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 24 | Foods such as sugar , salt , spices , fat and alcohol can therefore aggravate a cellulite condition by cluttering up the system with additional waste matter that is poorly eliminated . |
| 25 | If you are careful and place all your subroutines at the end of the main program , you can display the main structure of the program without cluttering up the trace with the subroutines . |
| 26 | developed from Xerox research ( like just about everything else we take for granted in desktop publishing ) these are a method of providing user control over software without cluttering up the screen with text . |
| 27 | Simon did n't answer , just turned in his swivel chair and began lacing up the front of Kim 's basque while still giving me my instructions . |
| 28 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 29 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 30 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |