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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |