Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 2 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 3 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 4 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 5 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 6 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 7 | They will play half a game each with new signing Eric Cantona , and one of them will be picked to line up alongside the Frenchman in the Manchester derby tomorrow week — the other will have to kick his heels . |
| 8 | On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane . |
| 9 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 10 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 11 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 12 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 13 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 14 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 15 | I think we have to face up to the fact in the Labour party that quotas , that positive discrimination are essentially clumsy . |
| 16 | ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’ |
| 17 | A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing . |
| 18 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 19 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 20 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |