Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Fiske 1987 , p. 67 ) By stressing that more than one meaning is available , that complete closure of the text is rarely achieved , a space opens up between text and audience . |
| 2 | So the same kind of stark opposition grew up between orthodoxy and rationalism on the matter of miracles as on the authority of the Bible ; and the issues raised then have surfaced again in a number of forms since . |
| 3 | The target setting exercise has already had modest success in convincing ministers to incorporate some of the goals and targets in the five yearly hospital funding agreement drawn up between state and federal governments . |
| 4 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 5 | Frowning , for he was fastidious in all his personal habits , he picked it up between thumb and index finger , deposited it on his plate and wiped the soiled fingers on his napkin . |
| 6 | She picked it up between thumb and forefinger and strolled into the garden . |
| 7 | Telephone and fax links will also be set up between border towns |
| 8 | At this point in the book , we feel a friction growing up between Piggy and the leaders because having established democracy using the shell , the leaders then destroy it again , denying Piggy a chance to speak . |
| 9 | Just turn up between noon and 7pm at one of the venues shown below for advice . |
| 10 | Would their victim burn up through friction ? |
| 11 | The projected deficit of IS9,000 million , to be made up through bond issues and foreign loans , represented a significant breach of the maximum level recommended by the Bank of Israel of 5.5 per cent of gross national product , and fears had been expressed that this could increase inflation . |
| 12 | In natural first language acquisition , the child , growing up through involvement in naturally recurrent events , learns about the world through language and concomitantly learns language through an engagement with the world . |
| 13 | Pass end A under line B and up through loop C ( half hitch ) ( Fig 10 ) . |
| 14 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 15 | The scenic Lake Vyrnwy Nature Trail begins at the ornate Victorian dam and leads up through woodland , both deciduous and coniferous , into the heathery hills . |
| 16 | As household refuse decomposes , it produces an explosive gas , methane , which has been known to seep up through sewage pipes , telephone cables or the top soil covering a site , constituting a serious hazard to nearby buildings . |
| 17 | As David watches events that can never take place again , such as the Woodbrook dance , and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness , he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe , his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood . |
| 18 | These rules have grown up through custom and are not laid down by law . |
| 19 | She submitted that the law built up through custom and practice appeared to have had no difficulty in affording to a child born after the death of its parent a right of action over the death . |
| 20 | John Lilley 's Portal estate , at Tarporley , Chester , crashed into receivership and a plethora golf courses are springing up through farmland diversification projects . |
| 21 | He started as a part-time sales assistant , and in the space of just nine years worked his way up through store management to area and regional management and finally to his present position . |
| 22 | The scoreline was unkind to Leeds , who should have been one up through Rod Wallace but were one down when poor defending let Sheron in . |
| 23 | The question is whether grammar ought to be taught as a separate formal study , like harmony or counterpoint , or whether a teacher can assume that it will be picked up through practice . |
| 24 | Certainly , the best hope for more political freedom in some countries lies in opening them up through trade ; that is why America would be unwise to refuse China favourable trading terms ( see page 54 ) . |
| 25 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 26 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 27 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 28 | The hierarchy begins with mathematics , and then moves up through astronomy , physics , chemistry and biology to sociology at the top . |
| 29 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 30 | A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM . |