Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Newcastle is having to run very hard to catch up with the mechanics of community care , Roycroft thinks that in terms of the spirit of the act , the city is already way ahead . |
| 2 | The person in the centre who is most likely to link up with the systems verifier is the SCOTVEC co-ordinator . |
| 3 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they develop . |
| 4 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they change . |
| 5 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 6 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 7 | Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods . |
| 8 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 9 | Nicholson became a member of an elite group of chemists — the B-Club — in whose company he was able to keep up with the activities of Hofmann and his associates . |
| 10 | When fed , it was happy to rub up against the legs of its new human friends , of either sex . |
| 11 | Northern Ireland people will now be able to check up on the levels of ozone , nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide from data compiled in monitoring stations throughout the province . |
| 12 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 13 | Follow our advice , and get your locks ready to face up to the rigours and trials of sun , sea water and chlorine |