Example sentences of "up [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people end up neither of them are prepared |
| 2 | The study shows , though , that women are as able to take tough decisions — but will weigh up each of the factors carefully . ’ |
| 3 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 4 | Make up each of the two kite ends first , then use a screwdriver , tent peg or skewer or similar stake to hold the extreme ends positively to the park ground . |
| 5 | The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent . |
| 6 | They looked into each other 's eyes , Kate 's now full of warmth and such love that Ace picked up each of her hands , and solemnly kissed them . |
| 7 | Checking of word structure may be achieved by looking up each of the possible character combinations in a list of words . |
| 8 | We shall now take up each of the five major categories of deixis in turn : person , time , place , discourse and social deixis , in order to illustrate the complexities that arise . |
| 9 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 10 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 11 | He smiled a slow smile and pointed out callously , ‘ The chances are that your business will never get off the ground and I 'll end up cheated of the money you owe me . ’ |
| 12 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 13 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 14 | They made up two-thirds of the membership during the period of rapid growth between 1905 and 1907 , and during the reaction of 1907–10 workers came to the fore in local party organizations across the country . |
| 15 | Mines would be grouped into seven holding companies to force profitable pits to support loss-makers , which made up two-thirds of the 63 mines . |
| 16 | Creating new export possibilities by establishing an EPZ in which exporting-only enterprises can be set up free of most local laws has appealed to many developing countries from the 1970s onwards . |
| 17 | Moreover , in January 1991 it was announced that the tests for 7 year olds had been modified and would take up half of teaching time for three weeks . |
| 18 | OPEN LEARNING MAKES UP HALF OF TRAINING COURSE |
| 19 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 20 | Its area takes up fully one third of the entire earth 's surface ; it makes up half of the World Ocean . |
| 21 | I do n't suppose you 'll be able to climb up half of that anyway . |
| 22 | The surplus of over £15,000 million , ( that is the gross proceeds , less VAT ) , would find its way into circulation , while VAT at 25% would probably make up half of the £M 7,000 needed , making our entire oil revenues surplus to current budget . |
| 23 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 24 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 25 | Their favoured nightspot is LIS 'S , a neon-lit discotheque throbbing with the latest music which takes up half of the 45,000-seater Olympiysky indoor soccer stadium . |
| 26 | Two will go down , and unless fortunes change for our clubs the South will make up half of the Konica league next season , re-inforcing the ‘ poor cousins ’ reputation of North and Mid Wales . |
| 27 | If this scientific breakthrough comes , nature will unmistakably have yielded up another of its secrets . |
| 28 | After the winged Soul Eater had gone from the low-ceilinged Workshops , its leathery wings beating on the night , the soul of the mutilated boy held in a merciless grip between its claws , the slaves had scuttled back to their tasks and the Robemaker had conjured up another of the thin , whiplike lights that had lashed out and thrown Nuadu to the floor . |
| 29 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 30 | Rumours in the market said that Japanese banks which had initially indicated a willingness to put up some of the necessary funds , were behind the problems . |