Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of state is the President of the Republic ( currently Francesco Cossiga ) , elected for a seven-year term by an electoral college made up of both Houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives . |
| 2 | The head of state is the President of the Republic , elected for a seven-year term by an electoral college made up of both Houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives . |
| 3 | The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference , to be held in Brazil in the same year . |
| 4 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 5 | Her weight shot up during both pregnancies , first to 16 then to 18 stone and her doctor worried about the risk of pre-eclampsia , a sudden rise in blood pressure which can lead to babies being born prematurely and cause complications for the prospective mother , too . |
| 6 | The intrinsic value of the ball , in contrast — say its beauty — would follow from the intrinsic nature made up of such properties but not itself be part of that in virtue of which two balls might be exactly alike . |
| 7 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 8 | If boards are in too bad a condition to be revived by any of the preceding methods they can almost certainly be retrieved by paint topped up with several coats of polyurethane . |
| 9 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 10 | Rex dropped the dreaded Repo Man card into the slot in the keyboard and the screen lit up with all sorts of possibilities . |