Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 2 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 3 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 4 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 5 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 6 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 7 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 8 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 9 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 10 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 11 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 12 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 13 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 14 | If it was n't your family you would need to come up come up with the dosh . |
| 15 | China has now tightened up on the access of social scientists to rural areas . |
| 16 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 17 | vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient . |
| 18 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 19 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 21 | It backs onto a couple of euphemisms , the Civic Amenity Site and the abattoir , and a valuable pond which attracted migrating birds has regularly dried up in the summer . |
| 22 | As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour . |
| 23 | That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future . |
| 24 | Lloyd 's has belatedly woken up to the need for change . |
| 25 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 26 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 27 | The left has yet to wake up to the new politics as played by the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | If so , the impact on the economy of the massive easing of policy since September ( slashing interest rates from 10% to 6% ) , has yet to show up in the figures . |
| 29 | Im not impressed — he has nt lived up to the hype . |
| 30 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |