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 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 3 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
| 4 | Being late-August , most of the birds had already flown south , though some pairs of kittiwakes remained , crammed together high up on tiny ledges . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A third alliance with a still unidentified company next month should give it a leg up on high-performance transaction processing and multi-processing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn . |
| 11 | Modelling of the deep magnetic boundaries has provided good correlations with reflectivity boundaries picked up on deep seismic surveys , and images of the data and their derivatives have suggested the presence of major structural boundaries , both parallel and oblique to what is conventionally taken to be the Iapetus suture , which may be the margins of terrains assembled as part of a broader zone . |
| 12 | So he 's taking people up on regular flights over the Gloucestershire countryside . |
| 13 | They think they have to win to gain self-esteem , in other words they do n't value themselves highly unless they are constantly winning or one up on other people . |
| 14 | I mean , pardon me , it 's not my habit , you understand , to pick up on other people 's phone conversations , I was just coming down the stairs here , I could n't — ‘ |
| 15 | Taken in conjunction with Apple 's move to offer Mac Application Services software on the PowerPC RISC and IBM RS/6000s , plus the Cat-in-the-Hat software for putting Mac up on other RISCs — which the firm is now trying to figure out how to introduce — it seems like Apple is getting ready to spread its crown jewels around hardware architectures . |
| 16 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 17 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 18 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp says the Freedom 1000 and 3000 3D graphics accelerators that it is to sell on Sun Microsystems Inc platforms ( UX No 407 ) , have been designed as processor-independent units which could well end up on other CPU architectures in future , though none were mentioned specifically . |
| 19 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 20 | Is , is , is that different to any other land law before , is well is , is this a new idea or is it just picking up on other |
| 21 | But , despite this ability to pick up on new innovations , and add refinements of their own , neither Paul nor any of the other pioneers found the backup necessary to generate significant leaps forward in the manufacture of equipment or the films themselves . |
| 22 | Make good use of your local needle exchange or chemist and stock up on new works . |
| 23 | An increasing number of sea lions with gunshot wounds are being washed up on Californian beaches . |
| 24 | The authorities also tightened up on illegal emigration — the coastal areas were patrolled and hiding-places for illegal emigrants were found in central Funchal ; those responsible were arrested , tried and sentenced . |
| 25 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 26 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 27 | Carson opens up on Gipsy Fiddler in the high speed five furlong dash and Gispy Fiddler 's trainer Jonjo O'Neill is looking for his first win of the season . |
| 28 | Theatre Hung up on toxic shocks Jean Cocteau meets Miles Davis in Robert Lepage 's solo show . |
| 29 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 30 | Informix says it 'll have its database software up on Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha AXP next month — the stuff is out now on Solaris 2.1 under Sparc . |