Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 2 | However , the subject of commission rarely crops up with major artists . |
| 3 | Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ . |
| 4 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 5 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 6 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 7 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 8 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 9 | Turkey , which seized the northern third of Cyprus in 1974 and still has up to 30,000 troops here , withheld immediate comment on Mr Clerides ' victory . |
| 10 | When the patient is in bed , he usually uses up to three pillows plus a wedge cushion support for his head and shoulders , to counteract spasticity ( p. 49 ) . |
| 11 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the dominant female still ends up with most eggs . |
| 13 | He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol . |
| 14 | Useful load also goes up to 450 kilos from 380 . |
| 15 | The player also offers up to ten hours continuous playing time if two additional rechargeable batteries are added to the basic pair , which themselves provide up to two-and-a-half hours play . |
| 16 | A great many doctors feel that chemical sensitivity is improbable — a dubious diagnosis that probably covers up for psychosomatic illness , hyperventilation , or purely psychological symptoms . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
| 18 | Straight tracks up to fifty miles ( 80 km ) in length , often aligned to a mountain top , were still in use by local inhabitants . |
| 19 | The A2 automatically boots up in individual mode . |
| 20 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 21 | She often works up to 16 hours a day and says that her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor does not intrude on her research . |
| 22 | Police arrested him with 14 ounces of the drug in January and he now faces up to 25 years in jail . |
| 23 | the radiation dose here goes up to 5 Sv and was mostly due to γ-rays . |
| 24 | And when the third and surviving princess emerges from her orange , Lesley Garrett immediately makes up for lost time , singing ravishingly . |
| 25 | Its implementation reportedly supports up to 500 I/Os per second and each I/O request addresses 64KB of data . |
| 26 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 27 | He readily owns up to this refusal to be tied down . |