Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way or another they can expect to meet up with the majority of the players who will represent Canada at the ‘ 95 World Cup . |
| 2 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 5 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 6 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 7 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 8 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 9 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 10 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 13 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 24 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 25 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 26 | In fact , one of Ramsay 's greatest achievements was in the atmosphere he was able to conjure up through the depiction of materials . |
| 27 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |