Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air India plane that blew up off Ireland in 1985 , with 329 people killed , had been targeted by men trained in a paramilitary camp . |
| 2 | ( Fiske 1987 , p. 67 ) By stressing that more than one meaning is available , that complete closure of the text is rarely achieved , a space opens up between text and audience . |
| 3 | So the same kind of stark opposition grew up between orthodoxy and rationalism on the matter of miracles as on the authority of the Bible ; and the issues raised then have surfaced again in a number of forms since . |
| 4 | Mothers can give each other confidence , but on the other hand , all sorts of nastiness and competitiveness can grow up between women when motherhood is in question . |
| 5 | The target setting exercise has already had modest success in convincing ministers to incorporate some of the goals and targets in the five yearly hospital funding agreement drawn up between state and federal governments . |
| 6 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 7 | Tasks are divided up between departments , units , individuals , divisions and yet they do not have the same power . |
| 8 | A dispute has blown up between Swindon Town and Chelsea over the transfer of player-manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 9 | The deal that was eventually drawn up between Boeing and Virgin was of a complexity unprecedented even in R.Q. Wilson 's considerable experience . |
| 10 | You can view any special links set up between users using option 7.2.7 — View User Special Links . |
| 11 | Otherwise a ‘ papacy of the professors ’ would be set up between Jesus Christ and those who believe in him . |
| 12 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 13 | In the same period , a smaller but nonetheless very important gap was also opening up between Barth and Brunner . |
| 14 | The need for a husband and wife to have some part of the evening alone should be discussed openly and accepted as being important , for this is another ‘ danger ’ period when tensions can build up between in-laws . |
| 15 | Late in 1895 a diplomatic storm blew up between Britain and America over Venezuela . |
| 16 | Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles . |
| 17 | The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words . |
| 18 | When a crisis blew up between Israel and Egypt in 1967 , London and Washington briefly took the lead in what turned out to be an abortive attempt to organize an international naval force to re-open the disputed Straits of Tiran . |
| 19 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 20 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 21 | They made up between 24% and 36% of appearances by politicians on national news programmes , 46% of appearances on regional news , between 42% and 49% of appearances on national parliamentary review programmes , and up to 60% of appearances on regional review programmes . |
| 22 | Frowning , for he was fastidious in all his personal habits , he picked it up between thumb and index finger , deposited it on his plate and wiped the soiled fingers on his napkin . |
| 23 | She picked it up between thumb and forefinger and strolled into the garden . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , it looks like a toss up between Dunmurry A and B in their billiards cup semi-final . |
| 25 | A service exchanging environmental information is to be set up between Finland and the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Telephone and fax links will also be set up between border towns |
| 27 | She was brought up between India , Europe , and England . |
| 28 | Romney Marsh is shared by Kent and Sussex ; what is left of the great moss system of the Mersey valley is carved up between Lancashire and Cheshire and the urban authorities of Manchester , Liverpool , and Warrington . |
| 29 | Although such linkages have been a key feature of the development work done in the Central Institutions , linkages have also been set up between HNC/D courses in Further Education Colleges and both CIs and Universities . |
| 30 | Henry Magus bobbed up between Celia and Dougal . |