Example sentences of "up [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 2 | ‘ Good weekend ? ’ he asked as she hung up her jacket in the narrow passageway outside her office . |
| 3 | He is acutely aware of it and so is Miss Julie Owens , Labour 's challenger , who gave up her job with the Socialist Group in Brussels to do battle . |
| 4 | Following her engagement in January , Miss Owada gave up her career in the foreign ministry , acquired a new and frumpy wardrobe , and suffered 50 hours of tuition in Shinto ritual and the traditional poetry that members of the Japanese royal family are supposed to write . |
| 5 | She held up her face to the pale sunshine , sniffing ecstatically at the salt air . |
| 6 | She had chosen to live and bring up her family with the old ways in mind and practice . |
| 7 | On Sue Davies ' retirement in April , Sue Grayson Ford took up her post as the new director of the Photographers ' Gallery |
| 8 | On Sue Davies ' retirement in April , Sue Grayson Ford took up her post as the new director of the The Photographers ' Gallery . |
| 9 | CADBURY Schweppes is building up its presence in the Spanish and Portuguese soft drinks markets with the £45.3m acquisition of several brands together with a fruit plant and bottling plant , writes Terry Wilkinson . |
| 10 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 11 | Acer America Corporation , which really wants to be a player in the reconstituted ‘ minicomputer ’ market , will be busy this week shoring up its defences at the low end . |
| 12 | It will then draw up its recommendations for the coming year 's School Development Plan . |
| 13 | Other researchers think it is more likely that the fish remember the chemical composition of their home stream , and so pick up its scent in the open ocean . |
| 14 | After mortal trouble Let me lie still Where the wind drives and the clouds stream Over the hill Where grass 's thousand thirsty mouths Sup up their fill Of the slow dew and the sharp rain Of the mantling snow dissolv 'd again At Heaven 's sweet will . |
| 15 | They do n't want to tie up their capital in the long term and then have the delay in selling . |
| 16 | On the fifth night they were dog-tired , having had little relaxing sleep in the cramped quarters of the submarine and spending several hours each day writing up their notes on the previous night 's recce . |
| 17 | Some employers , faced by likely future compulsion ( under EC law ) to include part-timers within occupational pension schemes where full-timers are eligible , are now taking up their rights under the Social Security Act 1986 to provide money purchase ( rather than ‘ final salary'/ ‘ defined benefits ’ ) contracted-out occupational pension schemes or COMPS ( see Ward , 1990 , pp. 37–9 ) targeted at those occupational groups which include preponderantly female lower-paid staff . |
| 18 | It said Clerical Medical & General Life Assurance and Royal Insurance , which between them own 37.4pc of Brixton 's existing shares , had undertaken to take up their rights to the new issue in full . |
| 19 | MANY jobs and services in local government are under threat as councils draw up their budgets for the coming year , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 20 | Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair . |
| 21 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 22 | Some police make quite a tidy income ringing up their contacts at the bottom end of Fleet Street whenever they have a customer of public interest . |
| 23 | The 3 threatened hamlets will be stepping up their campaign in the coming months to convince the County Council that a rural haven must not be lost forever . |
| 24 | Tennant and his girlfriend , Mandy Simpson , 21 , are not headed for the discos but to top up their tans at the Electric Beach instant tan centre . |
| 25 | The Arab states stepped up their pressure on the Soviet Union to halt emigration in late February after reports appeared in the Israeli press alleging that a high-ranking absorption official had told a committee on immigration to start preparing for the arrival of 230,000 Soviet Jews in 1990 , a massive increase on earlier estimates . |
| 26 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 27 | will he or wo n't he … can they or ca n't they … this weekend Nigel Mansell and the Williams team are due to make up their minds at the Italian Grand Prix … that 's where Mark Kiff starts his action roundup |
| 28 | EC foreign ministers , meeting today , have already drawn up their battle-lines over the much-vexed topic of safeguarding European culture on television . |
| 29 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 30 | Hobson and McCarley followed up their paper on the dated scientific underpinning for Freudian theory in general with an analysis of current knowledge of the neurophysiology of sleep , as applied to dreaming . |