Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 2 | His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 4 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 5 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 6 | All processing and refining of mine output is now carried out in South Africa and its management vested in Matthey Rustenburg Refiners ( MRR ) , a company set up in the 1960's by Johnson Matthey and RPM . |
| 7 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |
| 8 | Thanks primarily to Francois Mitterrand , a regulatory body , independent of the state , was set up in the 1980S to overview public service and other communications sectors and to protect broadcasters from pressures exercised by governments , politicians and lobbies of all kinds . |
| 9 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 10 | Green 's own views carried a good deal of influence within another " extension movement " , the " settlements " , set up from the 1880s in London 's East End and other urban areas . |
| 11 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 12 | And , an update on that fifteen car pile up on the M-forty in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 14 | Erm and I I 've requested an application form from the City Council for a demonstration for the big box pile up on the twelfth of February . |
| 15 | We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in |
| 16 | Both driver ants and army ants have exceptionally large colonies , up to a million in army ants , up to about 20 million in driver ants . |
| 17 | Up to a third of parents involved in child abuse are heavy drinkers . |
| 18 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 19 | Up to a third of mothers using such facilities have no job , except for day nurseries where 60–70 per cent of the mothers are employed ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Farms are a soft target for arsonists , according to a report which says that up to a third of farm fires are caused deliberately . |
| 21 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 22 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 23 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 24 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 25 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 26 | I can hardly stand up at the best of times — which is n't surprising when the only ice I 'm interested in is in my Scotch on the rocks ! |
| 27 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 28 | Increased exports of banknotes should have helped printer De La Rue boost halfway figures , up by a third to £41m . |
| 29 | If we take a 10-year view , we see that manufacturing investment is up by a third in comparison with a similar part of the same cycle . |