Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [noun] 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 EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Brazil 's Environment Secretary , Flavio Perri , has announced that the government intends to open up the Amazon to economic exploitation in a " sustainable , nondestructive way " and that cattle-raising , mining and agriculture would all be considered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was worried the water , if unable to flow up the Colne to Colchester , will be forced to find its level in St Osyth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To keep the GPRA at the table , de Gaulle was forced to agree to a series of major concessions on points that he had long proclaimed non- negotiable : to negotiate solely with the FLN ; to drop the demand for a cease-fire before negotiations could get under way ; and to give up the Sahara to the embryonic Algerian republic . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 5.17.3 to remove all signs erected by the Tenant in upon or near the Premises and immediately to make good any damage caused by such removal It is advisable ( at least for the purpose of this clause ) for the tenant to ensure that the term includes any period of holding over or continuation of the contractual term ( as it does in this lease by virtue of clause 3.8 ) although it must be considered highly unlikely that the tenant would be forced to yield up the premises to the landlord during a continuation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |