Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 3 | A side view of the decamer ( Fig. 1 b ) shows that CsA-binding loops of CypA are on one face of the pentamer whereas the secondary structure elements line up on the opposite surface . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth . |
| 8 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 9 | Without the enormous costs run up by the Royal Navy vessel , the Yard would have made profits of £6.5m . |
| 10 | Such powers were a necessity for advanced warning , as were the short wavelengths for the much greater precision in the location of targets than was possible with the 11-m waves of the coastal radar stations set up during the late 1930s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 13 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 14 | After all the Christmas lights remain up on the main street , and are still working . |
| 15 | Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 18 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 19 | Fun arises when members of both teams end up on the same leaf . |
| 20 | We are taking active steps to ensure that practising actuaries keep up with the rapid pace of change through a programme of Continuing Professional Development . |
| 21 | Fireworks burst up into the dark sky , then fizz to nothing . |
| 22 | At lunch hours things get busy as customers queue up for the small range of soft pasta dishes and such daily specials as vegetable lasagne or a spicy Italian-sausage casserole — all moderately priced and consistently good . |
| 23 | Will any amount of ‘ free ’ pencils , clipboards or folders make up for the likely storm of protest that inevitably follows these type of links ? |
| 24 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |
| 27 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | old friends walk up through the wild streets |
| 29 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 30 | This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions . |