Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] any [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had n't come up with any specific reason . |
| 2 | Perhaps I 'll be unpopular here , but in fact until you think of a way preventing vandals from vandalising the toilets , as you know , I do n't think there is , nobody has come up with any other way of doing it . |
| 3 | Forensic scientists have scoured the scene but have not come up with any conclusive evidence . |
| 4 | High apartment buildings and hotels were built up without any urban planning . |
| 5 | Instead a person could be held to commit an offence if he used words or published written matter which were threatening abusive or insulting in situations where , ‘ having regard to all the circumstances , hatred is likely to be stirred up against any racial group in Britain . ’ |
| 6 | In the present state of our knowledge of provincial life during the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods , no precise scale can as yet be drawn up on any single topic , let alone a general model that encompasses and balances all factors . |
| 7 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 8 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 9 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 10 | The ‘ gaze ’ for Lacan relates to this fictitious place that can never be taken up by any human being . |
| 11 | This question has not been taken up in any serious way . |
| 12 | ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club . |
| 13 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |