Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 2 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 3 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
| 4 | The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates . |
| 5 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 6 | Another way of seeing Cutler 's position , especially his historical schema , is as a conflation of Marx and Marshall McLuhan ; ‘ mode of production ’ as organizing concept gets mixed up with the Canadian communication theorist 's ‘ medium is the message ’ philosophy , in which consciousness , cultural forms and social organization all derive primarily from the effects of the various media . |
| 7 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 8 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 9 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 10 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 11 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 12 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 13 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
| 14 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 15 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 16 | The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time |
| 17 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 18 | So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) . |
| 19 | Land has come up with a credible answer in his Retinex theory of colour perception ( Land 1974 ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 21 | There are structural difficulties and the Council of Ministers has come up with a typical measure — just finding a few extra bob to see whether it will solve the problem . |
| 22 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 23 | Buffallo , however , have come up with a good trowel at a very modest price . |
| 24 | There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World . |
| 25 | Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar . |
| 26 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Inc worshipper Integrix Inc , based somewhere in darkest California , has come up with a new keyboard called the S5+ that incorporates the functionality of Sun 's new Type 5 but can also be used with all Suns , Sun-compatibles and personal computers : it is targeted at mixed computer environments and X terminals and it requires no special device drivers . |
| 28 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 29 | Spear & Jackson has come up with a new range of screwdrivers , colour-coded for easier identification . |
| 30 | So now it 's come up with a new look , aimed at the modern shopper . |