Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The transnational capitalist class is not made up of capitalists in the traditional Marxist sense . |
| 5 | Lori strung up like meat in the windless wood , everyone standing there , and someone … |
| 6 | Anyway , no matter how much one studies , it is difficult to keep up with changes in the financial world . ’ |
| 7 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 8 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 9 | Ronald Richter , aged 42 , was a little-known Austrian-born physicist , one of many German-speaking scientists and technicians who turned up in Argentina in the late 1940s . |
| 10 | This suggests an important point which will be taken up in detail in the final chapter but which should be mentioned here . |
| 11 | His basic pay of £575,850 up from £344,586 in the previous year was topped up with a one-off , long-term performance bonus of £2,714,624 . |
| 12 | Total expenses for the half year were £9.22m , up from £5.84m in the previous year . |
| 13 | With the greatest respect , it would be a pathetic science policy that suggested that the Secretary of State of the day should intervene to give funds to named scientists — whose names , no doubt , the hon. Gentleman picked up from cuttings in the learned journals . |
| 14 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 15 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |
| 16 | But as posters went up on campuses in the populous city of Shanghai , the situation became more critical and was fraught with behind-the-scenes manoeuvring . |
| 17 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 18 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 19 | Robyn 's generation , coming up to university in the early 1970s , immediately after the heroic period of student politics , were oppressed by a sense of belatedness . |
| 20 | In the first year , £3,000 can be invested and up to £1,800 in the following years until you reach the maximum . |
| 21 | The Midland could often owe Barclays and National Westminster up to £10bn in the normal course of business , balances that would only be settled at the end of each day . |
| 22 | As an example , assume that a credit rated business currently borrowing , say , up to £100m in the short-term variable rate markets decides simultaneously to lengthen the maturity and fix its interest rate exposure . |
| 23 | Many people wake up in the night with a wonderful " eureka " idea which does not stand up to examination in the cold light of morning . |
| 24 | In the Marne valley the active lime content , which is not directly proportional to the total lime content , is high — up to 43% in the calcareous topsoil and as much as 53% in the pure chalk subsoil stratas — but the average active lime content is considerably lower . |
| 25 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 26 | Peterborough now two one up over Blackpool in the other replay , Peterborough going ahead after three minutes through , a own goal making it one one after fourteen , has just given Peterborough a two goal advantage . |
| 27 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 28 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |
| 29 | Joint declarations signed in Gothenburg with Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia [ see p. 37535 ] , on co-operation and the gradual establishment of free trade areas , were followed up by work in the respective joint committees . |
| 30 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |