Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 2 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 3 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 4 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 5 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 6 | This is the area to the north of St Paul 's Cathedral , where there is a 1950s development , which he described as ‘ the prototype for all the windswept urban squares dreamt up in the fifties and sixties ’ that amounted to ‘ the rape of Britain ’ . |
| 7 | — A Chinese officer in a uniform more than adequately equipped with polished belts , straps and full holsters stood up in the front passenger seat of the car like George Washington crossing the Delaware , shouting dictatorially . |
| 8 | These are usually presented as small corners made up in the particular moulding to give you an idea of the finished effect , but any reputable framer will be able to answer any questions you have , as well as give you plenty of sound advice should you need it . |
| 9 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 10 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 11 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 12 | ‘ The biggest influx of Asian people to West London came in the 1970s , but there were small communities springing up in the 1960s . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , my little licentiate , when these retired schoolmarms and redundant bank officials pitch up in the petrified era , they will be forced to test their high-tech equipment to its very limit . |
| 14 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 15 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 16 | The book claimed that cancer and other deformities were mistaken wills , were new organs to meet new needs dreamed up in the deep unconscious , and that therefore they should be treated not with surgery but with interest and affection — humanity was limiting its potential by cutting out the tumours , blasting the cells . |
| 17 | If it were to continue throughout the decade the structure of the game could change significantly , by forcing counties to employ only a small force of top-class full-time professionals supplemented with part timers and the many amateur cricketers thrown up in the recreational game . |
| 18 | For decades afterwards , Francoist supporters denied the carnage which took place in Badajoz , in spite of the overwhelming evidence of contemporary eye-witnesses , who saw hundreds of Republicans rounded up in the municipal bullring , heard the machine guns , and smelled the reek of bodies being burned in the cemetery . |
| 19 | BRITONS caught up in the horrifying riots tearing the heart out of Los Angeles told yesterday of their terror . |
| 20 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 21 | Managers line up in the good old Miss World tradition as their units ' achievements — sales figures to you and me — are read out in reverse order and the best one is presented with a sash . |
| 22 | Appreciating that the key to a successful season lies in winning the replay against Portsmouth , Wright has no intention of allowing his team-mates to ease up in the two intervening League games . |
| 23 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 24 | Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . |
| 25 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
| 26 | The committee of six ( nearly all their names turn up in the 1910 sample ) organized a programme which included songs such as " The Old Countree " , and " Flight of Ages " , sung by Misses Forrest and Waugh ; the opportunity to dance quadrilles and waltzes ; and a pianoforte selection by Miss Thomson , who was , like most of the other performers , a compositor . |
| 27 | A theorist might suggest that the conspirators are principally , but not exclusively , Jewish : for example , there might be some Gentile Freemasons caught up in the conspiratorial network . |
| 28 | Similar discrepancies opened up in the agricultural sphere . |
| 29 | Truth , Dare , Promise : Girls Growing Up in the Fifties ( Virago : 1985 ) |
| 30 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |