Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned . |
| 2 | Take up of set-aside and ever reducing fertiliser usage might satisfy some of the requirements of the directive in time but Mr Buchan said he hoped that farmers would take urgent note of the board 's action and start planning ahead . |
| 3 | Weldex , which was set up in 1979 and now has a turnover of £4 million , will this week take delivery of Glasgow-based cranes that were stranded in England after Lilley 's collapse . |
| 4 | Conservative Party rules , first drawn up in 1965 but partially modified in 1974-75 [ see pp. 26989-91 ] , provided for the possibility of an annual election for the leadership of the party . |
| 5 | CITES was set up in 1975 and now has 102 signatories including the European member states and the USA . |
| 6 | EFQM was set up in 1988 and now has a membership of some 200 leading European businesses , all of which recognize the role of quality in achieving competitive advantage . |
| 7 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 8 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 9 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 10 | John Taylor , Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum and Nicholas Reeves , formerly at the B.M. and now Honorary Curator of the present Earl of Carnarvon 's Egyptian collection at Highclere Castle , have brought together objects and documents that trace Howard Carter 's Egyptian career up to 1922 and then follow the archaeologist into his retirement as consultant and dealer and finally death in 1939 . |