Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 2 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 3 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 5 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |
| 6 | And in this case we had to align the timber so that a sheet of plasterboard would line up with the projecting wall |
| 7 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 8 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 9 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 10 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |
| 12 | I would have tried to ask Dudley Wood , secretary to the RFU , but he did n't show up at the new kit 's launch … |
| 13 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 14 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 15 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
| 16 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 17 | He believes that the jets may originate from ‘ dikes ’ — a geological term for tilted strata or layers or others particularly dusty areas which might stick up from the surrounding surface . |
| 18 | In Committee I promised the Hon. Member for Dundee East ( Mr. McAllion ) that I would follow up with the Scottish Development Agency the need for management-employee buy-out teams to receive the same treatment as any other applicant for assistance from the SDA . |
| 19 | The old argument that software ca n't keep up with the rapid advances in hardware performance simply is n't true , he says . |
| 20 | You must keep up with the full range of your subjects — but where do you begin ? |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 22 | But I can keep up with the intermediate class and I said to Maxine , Does this get any harder ? |
| 23 | I do n't think yo I think you may be right but I do n't think I could keep up with the different kind of hairstyles ! |
| 24 | I was just beginning to get to grips with the Campaign for Ink Print Information , but Women 's Tapeover could not keep up with the steady stream of new feminist writing that was emerging week by week . |
| 25 | But not even a full-time repair unit could keep up with the constant breaching of the fencing . |
| 26 | His speech is the latest in a series which will run up to the Scottish party conference in May at which a booklet containing all his speeches will be on sale to the party faithful . |
| 27 | This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body . |
| 28 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 29 | ( The scampi is dodgy ; later I will throw up in the smelly boat toilet . ) |
| 30 | At any gathering of the faithful , he will stay up until the small hours debating ideas with all and sundry , pulling people with different backgrounds into the same conversation . |