Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 2 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
| 3 | Figure 7.6 shows that the average number of dependent children in the household is generally higher in the local authority sector , especially for young heads of household , but by the late forties , the younger ages of childbearing ( and the earlier leaving-home patterns of those brought up in the local authority sector ) mean that the values are very similar . |
| 4 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 5 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 6 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 7 | SO&sub2 ; and soot are measured at 418 sites ( the descendants of thousands set up for the Clean Air Acts ) but , prior to criticism from the House of Commons Environment Committee in 1984 , knowledge of other pollutants was threadbare . |
| 8 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |
| 9 | Higher pensions were payable to those who remained in work beyond this age ; these rose by annual increments for all retiring up to the age of 65/70 . |
| 10 | The aim is to develop a range of policies to develop the positive aspects of this process for scientific growth in potential host countries such as the UK ; and also to minimise the deleterious effects of negative aspects such as those bound up with the current ‘ brain drain' . |
| 11 | However , it is all too easy for those brought up in the Near Eastern traditions , when they hear Hindus talking of many gods , to suppose that they are talking of what they consider to be the supreme reality . |
| 12 | This is especially true for those growing up at the time , like my own children . |
| 13 | Nguyen Ai Quoc went into Yunnan early in 1942 to link up with the many other Vietnamese exiles who were known collectively as Dong Minh Hoi . |
| 14 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 15 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 16 | Elected people will no longer have an influence on local further education ; instead , the position will be similar to that set up by the Secretary of State for Health , where appointed quangos are in control . |
| 17 | The Spanish system is modelled on those set up in the U.S. ( Indemnity Act of 1975 ) and the U.K. ( National Indemnity act of 1980 ) . |
| 18 | At first encounter this conclusion was exceedingly unpalatable to those brought up in the clarity of classical physics . |
| 19 | We were up early the next morning at 06.00 to go up to the station to catch the 07.19 Leighton - Euston train , which is a semi-stopper , it took an hour to get there . |
| 20 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 21 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 22 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
| 23 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 24 | It is this inhibition that is allegedly displayed , in the well-known case , by those brought up in the kibbutz . |