Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 2 | The work is being carried out on behalf of English heritage , which is planning to open up the Friary to the public once renovation work has been completed . |
| 3 | Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service . |
| 4 | Government plans ( i ) to privatize state companies ( beginning with the projected sale of the state airline , Viasa , and the state telephone company , CANTV ) ; ( ii ) to cut subsides to the state sector ; and ( iii ) to open up the economy to foreign investment by a sharp reduction in tariffs , were also deeply unpopular and strongly opposed by trade unions . |
| 5 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 6 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 7 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 9 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 10 | So , if you want to read up the background to all this , this is th one of the best books and one of the most recent on the reading list , it 's on the reading list on the second page or something . |
| 11 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 13 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 14 | On April 22 , 1991 , Ryzkhov 's successor as Prime Minister , Pavlov , presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet an emergency anti-crisis programme designed to stabilize the economy by the end of the year and to speed up the transition to a market economy . |
| 15 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 16 | You may like to know that CPRW has worked through Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link ( to which WWF UK provides grant aid ) to take up the threat to SSSIs with the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 17 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 18 | The Ballinascreen man , now 28 , is among those who are only too delighted to lap up the build-up to tomorrow week 's All Ireland final . |