Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They meet under the auspices of the National Association of Coordinators of Community Languages in order to develop their expertise : a number of colleagues within this body have advocated the setting up of a recognised DES course to provide a further exchange of ideas as well as more official guidance to team leaders and coordinators . |
| 2 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 3 | In 1950 , Eric Williams published a book , ‘ Education in the British West Indies ’ , which contained his views on the setting up of a British West Indian University . |
| 4 | On April 20 the government signed two accords with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) for the repatriation of an estimated 1,000 Surinam refugees from French Guiana and the setting up of an official UN office in Paramaribo . |
| 5 | Amongst its duties would be the setting up of an environmental Geneva Convention — to decide how environmental regulations should apply in wartime . |
| 6 | Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 8 | 16,000ft up in the Bolivian Andes the miners of the Cerro Rico chew coca leaves , they 're preparing for another day in the tin mines . |
| 9 | Coun Cummings is receiving rehabilitation therapy at Clatterbridge Hospital and on Monday he will travel for a check up to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London , where the bypass surgery was carried out . |
| 10 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 11 | Under the new monthly system , the usage fee will be charged to your account on the first Friday of each month and will cover the period up to the preceding Sunday . |
| 12 | And there 's an accident up by the Flying Fox is it ? |
| 13 | Curtain up on the 40th Oxford Gang Show , an annual event which means months of frantic organisation and jolly hard team work for those taking part ; a ritual of devotion from backstage helpers and an early taste of stagefright for aspiring young performers . |
| 14 | In response to a request by the local Labour party , Stoddards invited Neil Kinnock to visit the factory during the lead up to the two Paisley by-elections in November . |
| 15 | A major new book is Jelena Hahl-Koch 's Kandinsky ( £75 ) with 420 illustrations and incorporating many works only known after the opening up of the old USSR in 1989 and the first Kandinsky retrospective in his homeland . |
| 16 | The moment for which Archie will always be remembered by Palace fans was when he scored our fourth and conclusive goal after a marvellous run from the centre-circle to defeat the FA Cup-holders , Wolves ( 4–2 ) in a thrilling replay up at the old Crystal Palace in January 1909 . |
| 17 | Behind the horses , the curricle , its hood up against the piercing March wind and the oncoming rain , shifted on the cobbles , and settled again . |
| 18 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 19 | Coffee and a stroll up to the nearest AVIS and we were off to our next destination . |
| 20 | There are as many people as turn up at an average Sunderland boilermakers branch meeting . |
| 21 | From here you can find fish to suit all sorts of personal taste , from the tiny Otocinclus vestutus up to the mighty Red-Tail , Phractocephalus hemioliopterus . |
| 22 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 23 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
| 24 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 25 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |