Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 2 | Freeze-frame almost any moment in this visually striking piece and one would end up with an abstract and richly textured landscape evoking the bright southern light of Margarit 's native Spain . |
| 3 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 4 | The throat-constricting landscapes , the classical-statue cinematography , the orchestrated flesh-mangling , and the fly-blown soundtrack add up to a unique and hugely influential whole . |
| 5 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
| 6 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 7 | Our Charter of Rights , backed up by a complementary and democratically enforced bill of rights , will establish in law the specific rights of every citizen . |