Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 3 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 4 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 5 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 6 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 7 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 8 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 9 | The flows are covered with large , high wrinkles and ridges , concentric with the edges of the flow , where the stiff surface layer was crinkled up by the pressure of more material arriving from behind — rather like a pahoehoe surface on a basalt lava , but on a much bigger scale . |
| 10 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 11 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 12 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 13 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 14 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 15 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 16 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 17 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 18 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 19 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 20 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 21 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 22 | So she 's come up with a way of trying to protect animals in Gloucestershire , Worcestershire and Herefordshire . |
| 23 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 24 | ( UX No 435 ) Well , it 's come up with a variety of severance packages it 's offering people . |
| 25 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 26 | Anyway , Robin 's just been poking around and he 's come up with a can of Mr Shen , the noo . |
| 27 | Banks have come up with a development of their IOR Checkmate sails , which were Kevlar and Mylar , and now build CHS Checkmate sails in a special Dacron fabric developed in the UK ; they carry no CHS penalty . |
| 28 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 29 | Recently the neurochemists have come up with a set of toxins which appear to be fairly effective in destroying only cell bodies , leaving axons intact ( Kohler et al . |
| 30 | Labour M P's and environment groups are saying tonight that Environment Secretary , Chris Patten has come up with a load of waffle in his three hundred and fifty point plan to rid Britain of pollution ; from Westminster , Des Fahey : |