Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 2 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |
| 3 | This adds up to a threat to the source of Japan 's post-war strength . |
| 4 | But to be forever in child-bed , surrounded by countless sons and daughters , many of them ill ; to run a self-supporting household with endless heavy domestic chores ; to be victim to a view that a woman 's one means of self-fulfilment must be through the home — all that adds up to a state of affairs not to be envied . |
| 5 | ‘ This kind of weight reduction ca n't be met by plastic 's rivals — and it all adds up to a reduction in waste at the beginning of the cycle , which is where the environmental action should start ! ’ |
| 6 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 7 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 8 | Together with some unique little touches — a new menu of European and Japanese dishes , newly designed china , and real glassware — it all adds up to a world of difference . |
| 9 | It all adds up to a lot of loyalty , from staff and customers . |
| 10 | This adds up to a loss of £9.57 . |
| 11 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 12 | Combine all that with a superb sunshine record , oodles of local bonhomie by both day and night , and we think you 'll agree Seefeld adds up to an Eagle of a holiday ! |
| 13 | It is not every failure to comply with law or every constitutional and non-constitutional short cut which adds up to an approach to powers which give rise to questions of legitimacy . |
| 14 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 15 | Mel toddles up to a driver of a white Fiesta and gets out his wiper . |
| 16 | The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) . |
| 17 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 18 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 19 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 20 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
| 21 | Stress is always responsible for neuro eczema , which shows up as a patch of inflammation in the nape of the neck at the top of the spine . |
| 22 | Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear . |
| 23 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 24 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 25 | It becomes a very resourceful swineherd — multiplies its pigs on forest acorns — and ends up with a lot of triumphant slaughter and roast pork and crackling . |
| 26 | Tiphook ends up with a lot of goodwill on the balance sheet , which can be a risky position to be in , but Montague is skilled at that sort of move . ’ |
| 27 | And the movie is the story of their friendship and Donald Woods ' conversion , in a way , to the erm cause that erm called black consciousness which Steve Beeko erm promoted and so on , and it ends up with a sort of James Bond escape from South Africa in a way , in that Donald and his wife and his five children , harassed and threatened by the erm South African Government , finally escape . |
| 28 | It usually ends up like a cross between The Sun 's ‘ Things You Never Knew ’ column and The Times Literary Review . |
| 29 | The first speech leads up to a toast to bride and groom , the most important people of the day . |
| 30 | Into this ordinariness , out of the muddy water , rise the spectres the murdered boys , led by Grimes 's father ; and Crabbe , hostile to his own father , leads up to a death-bed of insanity and terror . |