Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 2 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 3 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 4 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 5 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 6 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 7 | Actually , the BMC does n't know all the details yet and it 's highly probable you 'll have to come up with a bit of cash yourself , but if you 're keen call Roger Payne on . |
| 8 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 9 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 10 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 11 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 12 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 13 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 14 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 15 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 16 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 17 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 18 | I do n't normally sort of insist on people looking at the , the biographical background for the , but it 's crucial with Donne for you to pick up on a lot of the |
| 19 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 20 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 21 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 22 | ‘ We must be prepared to put up wi' a bit of discomfort , ’ Ernest said . |
| 23 | Dogs , on the other hand , have to put up with a range of 1 dioptre all their lives . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 25 | At football matches or at confrontations at seaside resorts the police have to put up with a lot of abuse . |
| 26 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 27 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 28 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 29 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 30 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |