Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 2 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 3 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 4 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 5 | Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup . |
| 6 | Prizes of tickets for transatlantic flights , provided by Air Canada Vacations , are up for grabs for the top fundraisers . |
| 7 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 8 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 9 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 10 | Most were not considered worth interviewing , but a shortlist was drawn up for interview at the Northern Foods flat in Clarges Street . |
| 11 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 12 | ‘ After an initial delay the MoD decided to put the property up for sale on the open market . |
| 13 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 14 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 15 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 16 | People working for the EC — which outlaws discrimination — faced an upper age-limit of 35 for starting work in many posts in Community institutions , said the report , drawn up as part of the European Year of Older People . |
| 17 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 18 | There being no trim control ( the aircraft is set up during assembly with the right incidences for a set speed ) the pilot selects the cruise throttle setting which corresponds to straight and level , depending on load . |
| 19 | He brought , on the one hand , an attitude and , on the other , a brace of new writers to the paper who form part of the backbone of today 's NME , a place where people argue , fight , get drunk and get worked up about pop under the benevolent and sardonic regime of the mohicanned tartar of rock publishing , Danny Kelly . |
| 20 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 21 | He 's bringing half-a-dozen bodyguards with him but they 're all amateurs , made up of officers from the Zimbalan army . |
| 22 | Issues of reliability also arise here , since the adjusted national figures are based upon a grossing up of estimates from the General Household . |
| 23 | Although there is some variation from area to area , each committee is made up of representatives of the key agencies who carry sufficient authority to act on their agency 's behalf . |
| 24 | The main base made up of volunteers from the local wards like nurses and well I mean nurses and auxiliaries like that . |
| 25 | If we drop Gower , Lewis , Pringle , Ramprakash and Stewart , we could have a complete side made up of people with the middle initial . |
| 26 | Given that prices are assumed to remain fixed , their reaction to the building up of stocks in the short-run will be to cut back on output and lay off workers , thereby creating DD unemployment . |
| 27 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 28 | In none of the examples studied is there any evidence of a longshore drift towards the west in the shape of piling up of material on the east-facing sides of the groynes . |
| 29 | The transnational capitalist class is not made up of capitalists in the traditional Marxist sense . |
| 30 | Lori strung up like meat in the windless wood , everyone standing there , and someone … |