Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 2 | All I mean by forearm rotation is that the forearm rotates slightly to the left on the backswing so that the club moves up on the correct swing plane . |
| 3 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 4 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 5 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 6 | Since we had complete snow cover , A Mad Tall Litho Lad was buried deep beneath a white mantle , and cutting steps up through the soft snow was becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 7 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |
| 8 | The party 's chair , Sara Parkin , said : " Unlike the other political parties , this manifesto faces up to the real issues " . |
| 9 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 10 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 11 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 12 | Caroline , Freddie 's wife , looks rather like him , except that whereas Freddie 's smile disappears up round the right-hand side of his face , hers goes up to the left . |
| 13 | In an event of 16 December 1991 , data from the Bragg spectrometer and the Hard X-ray Telescope ( HXT ) show that plasma flows up following the impulsive deposition of joules in the chromosphere by non-thermal electrons ( , Tokyo University ) . |
| 14 | The occasional burst of singing wafts up through the yellow leaves , mixed with the mouldy astringent smell of rotting apples . |
| 15 | The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge . |
| 16 | If history is any guide , the Bank of England could force overnight money rates up into the 20 to 30 per cent range and ram home the message with aggressive buying of pounds . |
| 17 | One finger , one thumb , keep moving This song builds up with the appropriate actions so the second verse is : ‘ One finger one thumb one arm keep moving . |
| 18 | A huge row blows up over the trumpeted transference of ‘ Guernica ’ from the Prado ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 19 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 20 | The top end finishes up with the three-over-two layout of Gotoh black chrome machines . |
| 21 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 22 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 23 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |
| 24 | I this could be a welcome providing that sooner or later the democratic element catches up with the bureaucratic one . |
| 25 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
| 26 | One glimpse of the world 's most spectacular waterfall makes up for the tiresome form-filling in baking customs halls which any African border crossing entails — neither Botswana nor Zimbabwe are suitable for those who wilt quickly in the heat or ca n't stomach light aircraft . |
| 27 | Immediately behind the Treib-haus a good footpath leads up to the left , soon passing into an asphalted track which enters the TreibSeelisberg vehicle road . |
| 28 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 29 | As earth gets up in the frosty dark , at the back of the Pole Star |
| 30 | British Bulldog faces up to the big challenge |