Example sentences of "up into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well of water springing up into everlasting life ! |
| 2 | Splitting the group up into small parties , each led by a parent who already has children at the school is a useful idea . |
| 3 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 4 | In fact , as I write I realize that the whole mess of Primavera must be handed over to you — TAKE OVER THE WHOLE BLOODY THING and get this tremendous weight off my shoulders — change and edit the costumes , but not too much , as they are designed so as not to interfere with the movement of the ballet , as it includes curling up into small balls , rolling , lying etc . |
| 5 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 6 | The cottage consists of the living space on the ground floor divided up into small rooms , with an attic store for beans , grain , potatoes etc . |
| 7 | A more effective approach , however , would simply divide the morning up into small time zones with the reward for playing nicely available at the end of each . |
| 8 | Dry the leaves first , and break them up into small pieces . |
| 9 | Villag anything at all , certain areas , and they are divided up into small police forces within a state , yeah ? |
| 10 | Laura was cutting something up into small pieces , with a cookery book open in front of her . |
| 11 | European languages chop the world up into small and manageable units — often into nouns . |
| 12 | The others had been ordered to split up into small groups and make good their escape as best they could and , if successful , to report to pre-arranged meeting places in the city . |
| 13 | At eleven , they split up into small groups and assembled in the rooms of the lecturers whose courses they had chosen . |
| 14 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
| 15 | Because of the scattered distribution of food , the orang-utan population is split up into small dispersed foraging units and the flexible nature of orang-utan society allows them to exploit irregular fruit distribution better than territorial monkeys or gibbons , for example . |
| 16 | Students usually feel that listening to these unfamiliar voices chopped up into small pieces is hard work , but generally the transcription exercise is not found nearly as difficult as expected . |
| 17 | They had huge piles of chilled fresh pineapple and other fresh fruits and cheeses all beautifully arranged and cut up into bite-sized pieces . |
| 18 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 19 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 20 | The Captain 's words slipped and slithered as his outrageous temper blew up into unbelievable fury , all reason washed away by wine . |
| 21 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 22 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 23 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 24 | It broke up into tiny specks as it was blown across the painting and gave a nice granular texture to the whole surface . |
| 25 | It took several minutes for Joseph to recover his composure and only then was he able to see by the light of the fires that the rear of the communal hut was divided up into tiny stall-like compartments for the pholy 's wives and daughters . |
| 26 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 27 | Red deer , for instance , end the season by splitting up into male herds and female herds , each with dominant members . |
| 28 | Breaking up large firms plays no significant part in UK competition policy although in the US the telecommunications company AT & T was split up into regional competitors . |
| 29 | At central level , there are four government departments , one in each country , and at local level , each country is divided up into administrative areas for educational administration . |
| 30 | but it keeps together The idea that they 're going to broke up br broken up into competing er items , worries people in my constituency and it also alarms me . |