Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers can give each other confidence , but on the other hand , all sorts of nastiness and competitiveness can grow up between women when motherhood is in question . |
| 2 | Tasks are divided up between departments , units , individuals , divisions and yet they do not have the same power . |
| 3 | You can view any special links set up between users using option 7.2.7 — View User Special Links . |
| 4 | The need for a husband and wife to have some part of the evening alone should be discussed openly and accepted as being important , for this is another ‘ danger ’ period when tensions can build up between in-laws . |
| 5 | Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles . |
| 6 | The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words . |
| 7 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 8 | Jane Brown 's gift is to vault the divide that has unfortunately grown up between architects and the rest of us and bring their drawings alive in the most agreeable and informative way . |
| 9 | This might also help break down some of the misconceptions that can grow up between organisations . |
| 10 | I promise you it is n't the only time that warm relationships have built up between reporters and bereaved families . |
| 11 | Back in April I tossed up between courgettes and bush marrow plants , and the courgettes won . |
| 12 | On looking up between shots , the Solheim Cup player found that her companion on the practice ground was none other than Nicklaus himself . |
| 13 | Despite the hour , he got replies immediately , and was transferred up through systems without delay . |
| 14 | The difference might be made up through charges to local councils for taking their rubbish away . |
| 15 | the road leads on up through layers of eucalyptus trees into the pine forest to Poiso , a major road junction with a good restaurant . |
| 16 | After a while he rolled from her and lay there , staring up through layers of darkness at the dim , coiled shape of dragons in the ceiling mosaic , thinking of the boy . |
| 17 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 18 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 19 | Thread cord up through rings and corresponding screw-eyes and out to the operational side . |
| 20 | A gently ascending forest track leads up through woods and comes out into the open at the summit of the trail , to give a fine view of the whole length of the Urner See , framed by the Fronalpstock ( 1,922m , 6,304ft ) and Rophaien ( 2,078m , 6,81 6ft ) peaks towering over the bluffs of the opposite ( east ) shore . |
| 21 | Sea-trout shouldering up through trickles . |
| 22 | The pate rainbows up through oranges , pinks , blushing reds and beyond , to ultraviolet perhaps . |
| 23 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 24 | The helium would seep up through fissures , and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs . |
| 25 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 26 | Clinical grading was specifically drawn up for nurses , ‘ yet it will start to break up as soon as job evaluation is introduced ’ . |
| 27 | Very soon he will be up for Oscars and head over heels in the switchback strip of movies . |
| 28 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 29 | ( It is worth noting in passing that a similar kind of question comes up for dancers as well as singers . |
| 30 | During the photo shoot , a slow stream of curious tourists and bona fide fans wander up for autographs . |