Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barr and Barnes are among an increasing number who favour vouchers or bursaries topped up by loans . |
| 2 | Why was I reminded of Parent-Teacher Association concerts , where mums dress up as Madonna ? |
| 3 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 4 | Perhaps involving you know , the leaders of the village becoming servants and servants becoming leaders , or women dressing up as men or you know happy . |
| 5 | French forestry officials argue that only 100,000 cubic metres of timber are felled each year , but agree that roads opened up by loggers should be closed to the public . |
| 6 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 7 | The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip . |
| 8 | Although managers require up to date information they have access to more information on a day to day basis than external users . |
| 9 | Item twenty as well as twenty six , you are suggesting that meals go up in day centres by fifteen percent , and then on twenty six , we introduce a two pound a week for daycare , for people with learning disabilities . |
| 10 | ‘ It is important that laws drawn up at community level are seen to be applied in an effective and consistent manner throughout the community . ’ |
| 11 | There has been a further growth in the importance of information technology , to the state where entire curricula have been revised on the assumption that students coming up from school can programme quite complex computers within their first year . |
| 12 | It may be noted that practices set up outside England and Wales are exempt from the provisions of r5 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 which prevents solicitors from offering certain legal services in a capacity other than that of a practising solicitor . |
| 13 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 14 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 15 | A Commission of Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands set up by Plantlife , a plant conservation trust , has submitted its report to the House of Lords . |
| 16 | Cheerful crashes and bangs floated up from Doris 's kitchen as I went back upstairs , and I could hear outbursts of raucous male laughter and pinch-induced shrieks . |
| 17 | One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons . |
| 18 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 19 | The musical content of The Mysteries was provided by a group of musicians and singers made up of pupils and staff and even the school chaplain , Father Nick Kern on bass guitar . |
| 20 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 21 | It is encouraging banks and factories to set up outside Bangkok , and is expected to bolster the price of rice to increase farmers ' incomes . |
| 22 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 23 | It was a mostly garbled , semi-literate report put together by the free-lance Ichaelan spy , largely based on idle remarks and hints and speculations picked up from technicians who had worked on Ardakke . |
| 24 | Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment . |
| 25 | Printed sources will allow librarians and teachers to keep up with developments in the use of microcomputers in general and in particular uses in schools . |
| 26 | On this site there was a small farm with a succession of timber houses and farmyards occupied up to c . |
| 27 | Empirical research on custody and divorce , on the personal experiences of divorcees both as solicitors ' clients and as consumers of the judicial process , and on the experiences and attitudes of registrars and lawyers added up to proposals for legal reform from an instrumental perspective . |
| 28 | As players and spectators heated up at Wimbledon 's Centre Court Dan Maskell stayed cool . |
| 29 | Children 's drawings and posters pile up with books and cups of coffee in the relaxed , completely family-orientated interior , and every time she found somewhere to put a newly ironed outfit , you could be sure one of the three cats would jump onto it , curl up and fall asleep . |
| 30 | The initiative of a generous group of dealers and collectors backed up by Christie 's will enable an important book to appear later this year . |