Example sentences of "up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) Place one piece of ovarian tissue ( or whole ovary in the case of mouse ) onto a clean slide in 2–3 drops of 0.2 M ( 4.5% ) sucrose ( made up in distilled water ) . |
| 2 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 3 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 4 | No doubt he would be woken up in good time to go to church . |
| 5 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 6 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |
| 7 | I was amazed that someone brought up in nineteenth-century Yorkshire could understand so completely the deprivation and frustration of being a hostage . |
| 8 | My arms come up in great red weals . ’ |
| 9 | These squatter settlements have sprung up in great abundance , generally in undesirable and inaccessible areas , which are unsuitable for standard building . |
| 10 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 11 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
| 12 | His hands and feet seemed to be constantly moving in almost impossibly splendiferous patterns , his eyes shone like June blackberries and there was music in his voice which seemed to roll up in great hopeful waves from deep in his abdomen . |
| 13 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 14 | The more you are bitten , the worse the reaction , so if you come up in great red , preventative action you can . |
| 15 | The pupils join up in small groups to make a tentative exploration of their environment . |
| 16 | And er the big bedroom carpet ended up in small bedroom down here . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions , so neither group should be able to get in . |
| 18 | Why the M-word is baloney American columnist John C.Dvorak argues that multimedia is a sham — the old , failed teaching machine dressed up in new clothes . |
| 19 | One of the best natural examples of this is the ability of the flu virus to keep cropping up in new forms . |
| 20 | We have set up in New Scotland Yard arrangements to co-ordinate the activities of all our police forces in the fight against terrorism . |
| 21 | Barclays also has a special loan scheme which it says is particularly suitable for enterprises starting up in new technologies that involve an element of risk . |
| 22 | A CLUSTER of top-grossing movies are due to be sent up in new spoof National Lampoon 's Loaded Weapon I. The team responsible for Animal House have signed up Emilio Estevez to star in this send-up of Lethal Weapon , Silence Of The Lambs and Dances With Wolves . |
| 23 | However , just as the Nordic states abandoned the idea of close economic integration , the theme was taken up in new developments elsewhere which , if they had a role model in mind , were to be based upon the more intensive ambitions of Benelux rather than the loose informal formats ultimately favoured by Britain and Scandinavia . |
| 24 | These have to be tested and followed up in new lines of inquiry . |
| 25 | These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes . |
| 26 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 27 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 28 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 29 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 30 | The place broke up in complete confusion . |