Example sentences of "up on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With output in almost all areas either steady or up on pre-privatisation days , the company already looks hugely more efficient in the private sector . |
| 2 | Last year , Britain 's clothing exports were worth £2 billion ( 20 per cent up on 1989 's figures ) . |
| 3 | The biggest growth was in cars and caravans which reached 352,205 , almost nine per cent up on 1989 figures . |
| 4 | In the year to July 1990 , Littlewoods paid out some £70 million in prize money ( 15% up on 1989 ) and according to finance director Barry Dale , brought in £17 million profit . |
| 5 | On Dec. 16 , 1989 , the Gabonese National Assembly adopted a national budget expenditure of 400,000 million francs CFA for 1990 , just over 14 per cent up on 1989 . |
| 6 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 7 | bit and on word ‘ to ’ , put one finger up on each hand |
| 8 | There seemed to be crowds of people lined up on each side of the door and lots were already seated inside the church waiting for the coffin to enter . |
| 9 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 10 | Politicians gang up on each other . |
| 11 | The trust my partner and I share gives us the freedom to get on and do things without stopping every ten minutes to check up on each other . |
| 12 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 13 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 14 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 15 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 16 | Okay , so the premiums remain level , but the cover potentially will go up on each anniversary whilst I 'm off sick , subject to the rate of inflation , subject to the maximum overall of ten per cent . |
| 17 | The backs have breath-taking pace out wide and both wingers have looked hungry for ball , turning up on each other 's wings regularly to create the extra man . |
| 18 | Thus the layers which are fed faster will advance faster and may catch up on slower underlying layers which they have no means of passing . |
| 19 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
| 20 | Being late-August , most of the birds had already flown south , though some pairs of kittiwakes remained , crammed together high up on tiny ledges . |
| 21 | While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends . |
| 22 | A third alliance with a still unidentified company next month should give it a leg up on high-performance transaction processing and multi-processing . |
| 23 | GO WEST young man … for the Mayfly are up on many western lakes , especially Loughs Cullin and Cara , where there are tremendous hatches . |
| 24 | Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington , Coun Bill Dixon said . |
| 25 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 26 | The events of the last part of his life remain obscure , but his will ( drawn up on 8 March 1482 , proved 1 April 1482 ) implies that he held some post at the court of Edward IV . |
| 27 | The big mass up front guarantees initial understeer and the ample power to the back promises the balancing availability of power oversteer. it 's very chuckable , but the harsh ride makes it sensitive to bumps and changes of surface in mid bend , and you have to be quick with the wheel-twirling to keep up on slippery surfaces . |
| 28 | Just as in Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in Bleak House , Thomas Mathew will watch them ‘ tripping one another up on slippery precedents , warding heads against walls of words , until they deliver a verdict ’ . |
| 29 | A HOTLINE for people worried about relatives on the Airbus has been set up on 071 270 4112 ( office hours ) and 071 839 1010 ( other times ) . |
| 30 | And the first is to pick up on concealed households and just to add to the points that have already been made that erm neither the House Builders Federation nor ourselves are assuming that all be housed , but the projected number is five thousand whereas we 're housing three thousand odd of them . |