Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain .
2 In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught .
3 At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game .
4 But if the bulk of the CPP continues to reject the election result and refuses to take its seats in Cambodia 's assembly , the UN will have to come up with ways to winkle the party out of power .
5 Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry .
6 To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ .
7 Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time .
8 They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ?
9 Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed .
10 Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt .
11 However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants .
12 Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard .
13 Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow .
14 EIGA reckons its plan will appeal to UK and European businesses ranging from hoteliers trying to set up in Moscow to oil giants eyeing the vast energy resources of Kazakhsthan .
15 Hold up to needles to estimate number of stitches required then deduct two at each end .
16 A company was set up , a detailed survey was done , and a bill drawn up for presentation to Parliament — the usual procedure .
17 The plans have been drawn up in response to concern over the nuclear industry 's long-term financial future , particularly after the end of the non-fossil fuels levy in 1998 .
18 Maura said you were going up to Slane to look up old friends of the family ; is that right ? ’
19 P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars .
20 I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’
21 When I was debating with myself whether to take up athletics full time I decided , on the spur of the moment , to go up to Nottingham to talk to her about it .
22 It seems unlikely that anything much will come of this discontent — there will always be some students eager to defend an institution that in most universities contributes up to £100,000 to charity each year .
23 JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland .
24 Having served as sort of er apprentice there as an artillery clerk , I was put , posted up to Woolwich to go through a erm clerk 's course .
25 Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time .
26 It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body .
27 So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting .
28 A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ .
29 Your crystal grows visibly : it breaks up from time to time and the pieces also grow …
30 No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm
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