Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 2 | so while our climbers rest and enjoy the sea air we can now catch up with the rest of the sporting action … |
| 3 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 4 | There is no real common denominator that can be used to classify the ‘ Originals ’ , the first fifty-odd recruits to the SAS , some of whose names will constantly crop up during the course of this book . |
| 5 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 6 | If the safety message gets across … his little sister Hannah will grow up without the fear of what happened to her brother . |
| 7 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
| 8 | Further , the fact that lesion of the cerebellum x including the flocculus in rabbits , cats and monkeys , or subdural application in rabbits and monkeys of haemoglobin ( which blocks LTD ) , abolishes the entire VOR adaptation , raises the question of why brain stem synaptic plasticity does not show up in the absence of cerebellar plasticity . |
| 9 | Although these weaknesses did not show up in the balance of payments until the 1960s this does not mean that the position in the 1950s was anywhere near ‘ entirely satisfactory ’ since the process was then in the making [ cf. |
| 10 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 11 | Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change . |
| 12 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 13 | Enormous tension can build up along the margin of the two plates and occasionally explodes into immense earthquakes which can , if they strike inhabited portions of the land suffice , wreak terrible damage . |
| 14 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 15 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 16 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 18 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 19 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 20 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 21 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 22 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 23 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |
| 24 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 25 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 26 | Children and adults come to learn and face up to the facts of caring and sharing on the principal that we can not survive alone on Earth — we must share it with all the other animals and plants . |
| 27 | Let us face up to the reality of these fears and face them in the power of the cross . |
| 28 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 29 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 30 | Explain and justify the options you would take up in the case of : even additions ; random additions ; , grouped additions ; no additions . |