Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 2 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 3 | Central government had encouraged new towns with light industry to spring up in the valleys but the impact of these industries as an employer of part-time farmers had been very low . |
| 4 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 5 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 6 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 7 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 8 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 9 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 10 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 11 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 12 | But it was the ideal stuff to lay up against the sides of the hole and tramp down into the base , where it soaked up water like a loofah . |
| 13 | On Feb. 18 JKLF commander-in-chief Javed Ahmed Mir announced that he would lead a column from the Indian side of the border to link up with the marchers from Azad Kashmir . |
| 14 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 15 | The resulting Act provides the government with the final authority to spend up to the amounts requested in the supply estimates . |
| 16 | The Government says that many scholarships will be on offer to make up for the charges , but surely this means that only rich people and the very brightest of the less well-off will be able to afford a degree . |
| 17 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 18 | The impetus for suggesting so major an upheaval came from Coleridge , who felt an increasing sense of obligation to live up to the hopes so clearly implied by the Wedgwood annuity . |
| 19 | It is not a preaching philosophy , but we ask the bully to come up with the answers . ’ |
| 20 | Aggravation flares like a lit blowtorch , and a Black Maria cruises out from round a corner to pull up behind the cars . |
| 21 | This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods . |
| 22 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 24 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 25 | Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ? |
| 26 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 27 | Hari thrust her worries into the back of her mind and helped her mother to sit up against the pillows . |
| 28 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |