Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — Abolition, Omission & Going Without (C2)

Several columnists have argued in recent weeks that the time has finally come to ___ the licence fee altogether and to fund public broadcasting from general taxation instead.

Under the proposed reform, the Court of Appeal would be empowered to ___ the requirement for permission to appeal in any case where a clear point of constitutional law was raised.

For the first eighteen months after the move, the family had to ___ a proper internet connection, the cable company having confirmed twice that the rural cabinet would not be upgraded in the foreseeable future.

"Perhaps we might ___ the customary opening pleasantries this afternoon," the chair said, with a faint smile, "given that the agenda runs to fourteen pages and the room is booked only until five o'clock."

A particularly forceful editorial in this morning's broadsheet calls on the new government to ___ the hereditary peerage once and for all, in the name of long-overdue democratic renewal.

Under the trust deed, the executors are required to ___ the residue of the estate within twelve months of the death by sale, donation or distribution among the named beneficiaries.

Many of the smaller chambers in the building have deliberately chosen to ___ a full-time receptionist, taking the view that the cost can no longer be justified by the volume of walk-in clients.

The reforming statute of 1832, for all its limitations, did much to ___ a system of representation that had remained essentially unchanged since the seventeenth century.

Given the highly unusual circumstances of the appeal, the President of the Tribunal agreed to ___ the standard requirement that the applicant first exhaust all internal remedies.

The new self-service kiosks at every entrance have all but ___ the long queues that used to form on Saturday mornings outside the central booking hall.

After a particularly unsatisfactory exchange about the third draft of the brochure, the agency decided that it would have to ___ the freelance copywriter's services with effect from the end of the week.

During the rationing years of the late forties my grandmother's generation simply learned to ___ many of the small luxuries that our own contemporaries now take entirely for granted.

In his opening submission, counsel for the respondent ___ the procedural objection raised by the other side within the first quarter of an hour.

If the only purpose of the annual return is to provide statistics that are already publicly available, the small business lobby has long argued, the form should be ___ altogether.

Given that both counsel had previously confirmed their availability for the entire morning, the judge took the unusual step of proposing to ___ the customary mid-morning adjournment so that the cross-examination could be concluded before lunch.