Example sentences of "up [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atkinson , cheered by 'keeper Nigel Spink agreeing a new two-year extension to his contract , has called up fit-again striker Cyrille Regis , insisting : ‘ He 's not there to be an ornament . ’ |
| 2 | When they waved to her , and held up little Enoch to see her better , she could no longer keep back the blinding tears . |
| 3 | So he said get some money up together mum . |
| 4 | me doing , I find a two that match up together mum , look |
| 5 | Instead of having another bridesmaid , have a page boy and so the two little ones go up together page boy |
| 6 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 7 | Function words take up only 4% of the vocabulary , or about 30% if weighted by frequency , yet they are accountable for almost 50% of the errors . ’ |
| 8 | Figure 12 , below , shows that of the post-1976 items issued , whose method of acquisition was know , 93% had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , with purchases and donations making up only 6% and 2 % of the total . |
| 9 | Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year . |
| 10 | The other side of the coin is that Thomson , in particular , has had problems in selling to private firms ; its sales force has , so it seems , learnt the right way of buttering up only government clients . |
| 11 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 12 | The deal between the wholesaler and manufacturer will have been sewn up only minutes before Sanjay accepted his orders . |
| 13 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 14 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 15 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 16 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |
| 17 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 18 | Also , there is a need for a dissolution account to be drawn up so musicians know the state of the band 's finances when a member either leaves or is dismissed . |
| 19 | Billy 'd have to be , yeah , this is what I 'm saying , and then we like we 'd move up so Emma sit next to him , but she would n't knowing her . |
| 20 | They do n't take up much space . |
| 21 | But they do need to be small enough to fit on the cover without taking up much space , and light enough not to tear the paper . |
| 22 | MARILYN MORGAN , section manager , in-store training , East Filton : ‘ We sell batteries but not watch batteries — they do n't take up much space . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was a Classic in my youth , madam , and although I have always been deeply interested in the works of the Roman poets and the Roman historians I have never been able to summon up much enthusiasm for Roman architecture . |
| 24 | Small machines like the Olivetti PCS 33 and the Packard Bell Elite 1000 do n't take up much desk space , but they do n't leave you with much room for future expansion either . |
| 25 | Only Haynes and Logie put up much resistance and 154 all out , with conditions improving all the time , presented England with few problems ; had the situation been reversed , one knew that West Indies would have won by eight or nine wickets , but English fans were happy enough to have six still in hand . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think he 'll put up much resistance this time , ’ Kolchinsky replied then paused to light a cigarette . |
| 27 | Curzon was appointed chairman of committees in the House of Lords ( 1775–89 ) , which took up much time , but provided a regular income to help in completing the house . |
| 28 | I do not wish to take up much time other than to remind the Minister of the five-point agenda with which the NFU would like him to be armed in the poker games of Europe . |
| 29 | In-service training takes up much time and expense , items in short supply in schools and school library services . |
| 30 | It does n't take up much room . |