Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 2 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 3 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 4 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 5 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 6 | Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler . |
| 7 | He too builds up at the very least a case to answer . ) |
| 8 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 9 | One important global issue can be summed up in the now widely used expression ‘ limits to growth ’ . |
| 10 | That stacks up to a quite well specified machine , and you 'll find file operations , particularly , slow on a 20MHz SX if you opt for the HPFS . |
| 11 | By then governments may have woken up to a yet more radical option . |
| 12 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 13 | We can make our ‘ tree diagram ’ grow to look like this : If we then look at this phrase in the context of a longer phrase ‘ twenty places further back ’ , and build up the ‘ further back ’ part in a similar way , we would end up with an even more elaborate structure : |
| 14 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 15 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 16 | Old victories are savoured ; ancient defeats glossed over , and the Party 's leaders held up to a not always affectionate scrutiny . |