Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
2 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
3 | The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions . |
4 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
5 | Grease and press the base down into the tin so that the snipped pieces fold up around the sides of the tin . |
6 | As the lake mists rise up to the hills so the clouds trail down the mountains and valleys to embrace the earth . |
7 | … peace will be permanently preserved only if our artisans and industrialists keep up with the artisans and industrialists of other countries a constant and deliberate communication through their political parties and other organisations … . |
8 | The Institute is made up of three departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured ; Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods live up to the claims made by manufacturers ; and the Consumer Advice Service , which answers your questions and produces GHI Information Sheets . |
9 | A local spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) commented that " there is no such thing as selective trapping because all sorts of protected birds end up in the nets and die before they can be released " . |
10 | I wanted to see the rainforest I 'd read about , a place where vast trunks rise up like the pillars of a gloomy cathedral , where lianas hang down , where bright parrots chatter in the sunlight of the tree canopy . |
11 | From such a vantage point you can scan up to a mile along many beaches and spot objects cast up by the tides . |
12 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
13 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
14 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
15 | Shopping at the company store often means a long wait in the queue , so the children line up for the groceries , while Domitila sells her pies ( Barrios de Chungara and Viezzar 1978 ) . |
16 | Although it is annoying to have SIMMs in this position ( you would have to remove the motherboard to add extra modules ) , it is only important to ensure that the expansion slots line up with the slots in the rear of the case . |
17 | Judges also preside over enquiries set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 . |
18 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
19 | If one monkey is separated , the blockers dash up into the trees ahead to take up their positions , crashing through the branches in a way that is quite unlike their normal movements . |
20 | Connect the pop-up bath waste from the rear of the bath , adjusting the waste so the components match up with the holes in the bath . |
21 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
22 | Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion . |
23 | As the riders struggle up through the hairpins , you can hear the screams of encouragement from below . |
24 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |