Example sentences of "up [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall 1991 start up award of £1000 and the Belfast Telegraph prize of £2000 worth of advertising . |
| 2 | After chalking up debts of ¥500 billion ( $3.5 billion ) , Tokyo-based EIE is being rescued by five large Japanese banks . |
| 3 | Eventually Gouzenko ran up debts of $153,000 which were partly settled by the sale of his book and film rights . |
| 4 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |
| 5 | EAST 17 star Anthony Mortimer ran up debts of more than £2,000 in a bid to get a record deal for his band . |
| 6 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 7 | The nuns have run up debts of more than £1 million with an ambitious plan for a care village in the grounds of the convent . |
| 8 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 9 | The nuns have run up debts of more than £1 million with an ambitious plan for a care village in the grounds of the convent . |
| 10 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 11 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 12 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
| 13 | For the insider such an exploration of the secular rituals and social constructs which govern police practice will hold what Myerhoff and Moore ( 1977 : 18 ) have described as ‘ the possibility that we will encounter ourselves making up conceptions of the world , society , our very selves . |
| 14 | One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers . |
| 15 | SparcWare is driven by the need to lower the support costs that eat up 50% of every software engineering dollar and expand the market for independent software vendors . |
| 16 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 18 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 19 | We took up cases of sexual harassment as well , although it was difficult . |
| 20 | There is nothing more annoying than unintentionally digging up groups of bulbs when they are dormant . |
| 21 | W. J. Freeland set up groups of three mice , the different mice having been injected with different quantities of parasites . |
| 22 | Their visits were threatening and long , and eventually the agency gave up hope of substituting mulberry trees for opium . |
| 23 | Orrell , who have not yet given up hope of winning the Courage League Championship despite last week 's narrow defeat by Wasps , will have Shaun Gallagher back in the line-up for Monday 's fixture at Harlequins . |
| 24 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 25 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 26 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 27 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 28 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 29 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 30 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |