Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular handling and fondling of the young animals helps ensure they grow up into docile but nonetheless bold animals . |
| 2 | The Greeks had built predominantly in only one or two storeys ; the Romans built up to four or even five , and the arched type of construction was more suitable for this type of work . |
| 3 | Of the vast multitude of varieties that are available , old and new , and despite the astonishing achievements of the modern breeders and growers , not many varieties match up to all or even most of the desirable specifications , and it is difficult , nay , impossible to name one that does not have some fault somewhere . |
| 4 | Yeah and you er I ov I overslept , well I woke up at five and normally I think if I go to sleep now and I sort of get myself awake but today I must of turned over |
| 5 | They also adopted a different approach to that adopted by Lyell J , but they all came up with more or less the same figure at the end of the day , around £54,000 . |
| 6 | The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned . |
| 7 | Are you stuffed up with cold as well ? |
| 8 | Conservative Party rules , first drawn up in 1965 but partially modified in 1974-75 [ see pp. 26989-91 ] , provided for the possibility of an annual election for the leadership of the party . |
| 9 | It is believed to be probably caused by an organic abnormality of the brain dating from before or even after birth ; it can occur up to three or even five years of age . |
| 10 | In year 4 , demand continues to increase , but this time by only 500 units to 3,500 units : the desired capital stock goes up to thirty-five and so net investment of only five machines is necessary . |
| 11 | A composite is any material made up of two or more distinct elements . |
| 12 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 13 | Sometimes a gets up to thirty and then they give it to the person |
| 14 | fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes . |
| 15 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 16 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 17 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 18 | Weldex , which was set up in 1979 and now has a turnover of £4 million , will this week take delivery of Glasgow-based cranes that were stranded in England after Lilley 's collapse . |
| 19 | CITES was set up in 1975 and now has 102 signatories including the European member states and the USA . |
| 20 | EFQM was set up in 1988 and now has a membership of some 200 leading European businesses , all of which recognize the role of quality in achieving competitive advantage . |
| 21 | Now what 's going to happen along the right hand axis we go up to twenty and so we can go along there in twos and it 'll just fit on . |
| 22 | month you end up with twelve and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ Training is a good investment , as we end up with happier and more efficient staff and happier guests , ’ he says . |
| 24 | We have obviously at every Conference a certain amount also of Constitutional motions , er an organizational motion , and some , and some of tomorrow will be taken up with that as well as the announ , er announcement concerning the elections for the various committees . |
| 25 | The days are long gone when drinkers should put up with warm and often out-of-condition beer . |
| 26 | People aged up to 20 but still at school or in further education , who have no independent income of their own . |
| 27 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Take up of set-aside and ever reducing fertiliser usage might satisfy some of the requirements of the directive in time but Mr Buchan said he hoped that farmers would take urgent note of the board 's action and start planning ahead . |
| 30 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |