Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had heavy army trousers held up with a huge leather belt and a thick army shirt . |
| 32 | Coalitions are temporary structures made up of a small group of individuals ( usually two ) sharing a common goal . |
| 33 | So , whichever way we bob and weave , I 'll be able to re-jig the data or reporting structures to come up with a new geographical analysis or responsibility centre , whatever way we want to report . ’ |
| 34 | M and S has also told its hanger suppliers to come up with a safe design . |
| 35 | Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone . |
| 36 | The guns opened up with a deafening roar , and immediately the lights were switched off . |
| 37 | The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere . |
| 38 | These additions to a basic service may persuade customers to sign up with a particular factor , but the reason why they stay comes back to the quality of the service provided . |
| 39 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 40 | This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections . |
| 41 | The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used . |
| 42 | These protein molecules curl up into a particular shape determined by their own amino-acid sequence , which in turn is governed by the DNA code sequence of the gene G. When G mutates , the change makes a crucial difference to the amino-acid sequence normally specified by the gene G , and hence to the coiled-up shape of the protein molecule . |
| 43 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 44 | As police track a small boy 's killers , locals face up to a lurking danger |
| 45 | She will probably be awake before that as alcohol disrupts sleep as well as causing dehydration , causing partygoers to wake up with a raging thirst and pounding headache . |
| 46 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 47 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 48 | THREE arms go up in a golden salute as brothers Jonny and Greg Searle celebrate victory with Garry Herbert in the 2000m coxed pairs . |
| 49 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 50 | At the same time let your hands lift up in a semi-circular motion and come down to your sides . |
| 51 | They are nevertheless honest enough to praise the good points of the car but are unable to concede that these points add up to a first-class package . |
| 52 | Winds will remain light and variable , and this will allow all that sunshine to warm the air nicely , temperatures getting up to a comfortable ten or eleven celsius , that 's fifty or fifty fahrenheit . |
| 53 | The first is in the village 's neat cemetery , where fields run up to a distant hedgerow and a sign by the gate says ‘ Fast Food Service ’ . |
| 54 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 55 | The males and queens rise up in a nuptial flight and mate on the wing . |
| 56 | Hands held up in a no-harm gesture , he continued to back away . |
| 57 | Er are the toilets kept up to a high standard ? |
| 58 | In 1963 Takayanagi proposed models for polymers containing separate phases and carried out experimental studies on composites made up from a hard polymer and a soft rubber . |
| 59 | Soon an uneven line of bobbing flashlights were seen approaching through the trees , and then the two cordons met up in a noisy reunion of mutual backslapping and congratulation . |
| 60 | When Northern crops crash up against a new pest or a new processing requirement , breeders hightail it back to the gene pool in search of the genetic variability that may help them . |