Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table . |
| 2 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 3 | Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats , stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears . |
| 4 | Mrs Bottomley , who is planning to close or merge up to 15 London hospitals , said she was ‘ most impressed ’ with her mother 's treatment . |
| 5 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 6 | The statute laid down that measures ‘ for the estate of the king and his heirs and for the estate of the realm and people should be granted only by the king in parliament , the implication being no doubt that such measures should not be forced upon the king by his subjects or drawn up by non-parliamentary assemblies . |
| 7 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 8 | You may replant in the old containers or pot up in individual pots for replanting later . |
| 9 | If this is done , then the work of individual teachers within the school contributes to the general pattern of pupils ' development , rather than being wasted because it is not adequately prepared for , or followed up by other teachers . |
| 10 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 11 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 12 | Feelings do not have to be ‘ justified ’ ; they do not have to be rational ; they should never be judged as OK or not-OK , or covered up with positive thoughts and affirmations . |
| 13 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 14 | The patient is lifted if he has not recovered his ability to balance , that is , if he tends to topple and fall backwards and towards his hemiplegic side when he tries to sit or stand up without any support . |
| 15 | The Greater London Enterprise Board ( renamed Greater London Enterprises in 1986 ) can claim some considerable success in saving or creating up to 4000 jobs between 1982 and 1985 , but London had lost over 250000 jobs between 1978 and 1982 alone ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1985 , p. 81 ) . |
| 16 | Friends of the Earth water campaigner Linda Stupples said : ‘ The report fails to discuss the real options and blindly assumes the consumer either has to pay up or put up with polluted water . |
| 17 | There is considerable evidence that people only remember or absorb up to seven points in any communication situation . |
| 18 | Before sunset ( and particularly if a shower is expected ) each row can be raked into a large number of small cocks , or rowed up into narrow swathes . |
| 19 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 20 | First , problems are so complex that they are normally factored , or split up into separate problems , each of which can potentially be tackled by a sub-organization . |
| 21 | We are told that Russia will disintegrate , or split up into separate republics , but we have no reason to fear this . |
| 22 | Crusader castles cling to jagged crests or rise up from barren plains . |
| 23 | Together , these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs . |
| 24 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 25 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 26 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 27 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 28 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 29 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 30 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |