Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ? |
| 2 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 3 | The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region . |
| 4 | The nose-tingling aroma of rosemary in itself is enough to banish catarrh and sinus infections as it trickles coolly up into the nasal cavities and spreads behind the cheekbones and forehead . |
| 5 | The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts . |
| 6 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 7 | Not up to the old days ; not for either of them . |
| 8 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 9 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 10 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 11 | The Kaszubes are part of the ancient complex of Slav tribes who had occupied the southern Baltic shores right up to the Danish borders some time around the fifth and seventh centuries AD . |
| 12 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 13 | So Jane and John took to the boats , and drifted right up to the remaining seals before they scattered into the water . |
| 14 | The main focus of the programme will be an exhibition providing information on mental illness and an historical view of how patients were cared for throughout history right up to the recent changes in local provision . |
| 15 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 16 | And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs . |
| 17 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 18 | It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) . |
| 19 | Far up in the northern reaches of Canada roam vast herds of caribou , a deer which we in Europe call the reindeer . |
| 20 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 21 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 22 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 23 | Vulcanologists said Mayon had erupted 26 times during yesterday 's 11 daylight hours — well up on the 15 eruptions in the previous 13 hours . |
| 24 | She let a hint of tears well up in the green eyes ; it was a stage trick , not often enough practised . |
| 25 | Join this point diagonally up to the outer edges of tab . |
| 26 | Even up to the final days the movement of the young fish can be seen by using a strong eye-glass . |
| 27 | Mistakenly , he thought that the figures he saw high up on the furthest rocks were working the rich secrets of the plumbago or wadd mine . |
| 28 | It is a large castle , strongly fortified and with small window openings high up on the massive walls . |
| 29 | I leave the motor road high up on the open Wolds , and take the chalk and flint surfaced green lane . |
| 30 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |