Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 2 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 3 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 4 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 5 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 6 | Honor got up like an old woman , glancing past Topaz to the shelves where bottles of medicine were stored . |
| 7 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 8 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 9 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 10 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 11 | I caught a glimpse of JCBs grazing in the adjoining field like a group of hybrid giraffes ; and was that a dumper truck with its shell tipped up like a rutting tortoise ? |
| 12 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 13 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 14 | To that figure he added a total of three hundred and fifty two thousand one hundred and seven pounds for the future made up of a yearly figure of thirty nine thousand one hundred and twenty three pounds for Mrs evidence , multiplied by nine . |
| 15 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 16 | The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel . |
| 17 | Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 18 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 19 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 20 | Alright th the car blew up on a dual carriageway there 's |
| 21 | The Peugeot 106 XR 1.1 car put up as a special incentive to enter the event was won by Golf Monthly reader , Tom Allwyn Davies from Ipswich . |
| 22 | The corners of Lucinda 's mouth quirked up into a beaming smile as Vi watched , fascinated . |
| 23 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 24 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 25 | Between each song , a chant pushes up like a hushed inhale , murmuring from a hesitant corner . |
| 26 | So three months ago the club ended up with an efficient and honest chairman and secretary . ’ |
| 27 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 28 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 29 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 30 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |