Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 2 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 3 | Suddenly , blood sacrifice and small armed groups rising up against the state seemed worthy of three cheers . |
| 4 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 5 | The uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's specialty care services continues despite the publication this week of 6 reviews by working groups set up by the London Implementation Group after publication of the UK Department of Health 's response to the Tomlinson report on London 's health services . |
| 6 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 7 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 8 | The SSL holds a core collection of material covering scientific and technical aspects backed up by the National Library 's other relevant collections such as official publications , legislation , and popular science items . |
| 9 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 10 | This is entirely due to excessive muscular tension building up over the years and pulling the bones of the spine closer together , by as much as two or even three inches . |
| 11 | The plates are not permanent : they are constantly being replenished by liquid rock gushing up from the Earth 's mantle ( the subsurface layer ) at the long submarine mountain ranges known as the mid-ocean ridges . |
| 12 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 13 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 14 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 15 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 16 | Most of that chlorine gets up into the atmosphere because of our activities , particularly our use of CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) , and other chlorine-based gases . |
| 17 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 18 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 19 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 20 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 21 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 22 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 23 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
| 24 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |
| 25 | At the airport planes of astonishingly different sizes — like children 's toys on different scales mixed up in the same game queue to use the runway for take-off . |
| 26 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 27 | The activating field producing resonance is the electric and magnetic field set up by an overhead power line or magnetic field producing appliance such as an electric blanket , etc . |
| 28 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 29 | Room 44 is a simple storage room , which has mouldering old linen , brittle and useless wicker baskets , and some lumber piled up against the west wall . |
| 30 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |