Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 2 | However , there are many new avenues opening up for qualified staff in areas which have not traditionally been associated with nursing . |
| 3 | He watched her go down Newcastle Place with the bird cage in her arms , and pity rose up like yeasty dough in his chest , restricting his breath . |
| 4 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 5 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 6 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 7 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
| 8 | Armagh Language Centre , based at the local College of Further Education , has come up with two courses in European Studies and English Language . |
| 9 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The decoy can catch up to 1400 birds in a season . |
| 11 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 12 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 13 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 14 | An anti-Nazi lawyer , Serge Klarsfeld , discovered in mid-November that a Second World War filedrawn up by French police in October 1940 on the instructions of the Gestapo and containing information on all Jewish people in Paris was still in existence at the Ministry of War Veterans , where it was apparently used to check pension claims . |
| 15 | This all adds up to huge difficulties in providing for the population . |
| 16 | In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service . |
| 17 | The air quality over much of Britain deteriorated during hot weather in May , with a build up of photochemical smog in some areas . |
| 18 | Leaving gaps in the base of the wall near ground level will prevent the build up of excessive water in the soil behind . |
| 19 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 20 | Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm . |
| 21 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 22 | The jury will present up to five awards in recognition of excellence in Christian programming in the region . |
| 23 | Blackgrass has built up to such levels in some of its traditional heavyland haunts that some cereal growers are now reporting severe problems in controlling it . |
| 24 | By the use of one-way valves , air pressure can be built up in each chamber in turn by moving the piston back and forth . |
| 25 | However , a European firm is set to create up to 100 posts in the town , it was revealed today . |
| 26 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |
| 27 | Now football , and Swindon Town have moved up into sixth place in the first division after beating Grimsby Town one-nil at the County Ground last night . |
| 28 | There has been a particular concentration on measures for young people to the extent that many who leave school at sixteen can expect up to two years in government schemes which combine work experience with training . |
| 29 | After teaming up with fellow musicians in the early Seventies , he formed Alaap , performing at Asian shows and weddings , a practice they still do as well as supporting the likes of Peter Gabriel and UB40 at international music festivals . |
| 30 | The stout plant will grow up to 12 inches in slow-flowing rivers in their natural habitat . |