Example sentences of "the [noun sg] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When insulating the loft floor , bring the ends of the blanket up against the sides of the cistern to give continuity . |
| 2 | " The united front is not a question of the relation of the ILP and the CP , " he wrote , " but the building up of the workers unity in the struggle against the capitalist offensive on the basis of demands that will unite the widest masses of workers . " |
| 3 | In the central area of the nest site a great heap of bones and fragmentary remains of pellets had accumulated from the break up of the pellets . |
| 4 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 5 | In addition to the Patents Act 1977 , there are a number of rules dealing with details such as registration procedure , fees and the setting up of a Patents County Court in London . |
| 6 | But he wants to press on with others despite American misgivings : full implementation of UN sanctions , UN policing of the border between Serbia and Bosnia , peacekeepers for havens in Bosnia and the setting up of a war-crimes court . |
| 7 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 8 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 9 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 10 | Even if you are not a skier , it is worth taking the funicular up to the slopes just to experience the journey and to marvel at the views opening out below . |
| 11 | At Fabian , three miles further on , a road turns off to the right up into the mountains : I shall come back to this in a moment . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't the rain here that counts , it 's the rain up on the hills where the river starts . |
| 13 | You just have to sit there and see what happens — and what happens is , on the whole , pretty gruesome : the sweat-plastered hair ; the nightie up round the armpits ; the chipped enamel bowl full of afterbirth — and all without the soft focus of a Pethedine injection . |
| 14 | It would have to be sold , of course , and her mind boggled a little at the clearing up of the accumulations of a lifetime Sara would have to do . |
| 15 | After the opening up of the borders between East and West Germany in 1989 the project became much easier . |
| 16 | The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition . |
| 17 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 18 | He wrote the event up for the straights of the San Francisco Chronicle . |
| 19 | All the game up in the thickets will run away . ’ |
| 20 | skiing , the round up of the sports . |
| 21 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |
| 22 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |
| 23 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 24 | However , when the defendant was in possession of the goods and refused to deliver them up on demand his act was not only conversion but also detinue and the form of judgment in detinue might include an order for the delivery up of the goods . |
| 25 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 26 | She took the path up to the downs above the house . |
| 27 | If you are wearing sensible shoes , it is possible to join the path up through the woods on Petřín Hill , past some of the 16 and 18C walling now made into lookout towers , with lovely views over the city . |
| 28 | Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes ? |
| 29 | I got the crow 's cage again and afterwards was sent inside to do the washing up in the Corporals ' eating area . |
| 30 | all the way up to the mountains , you could walk so far you could nearly cross over and go to another village right up the mountains , just keep walking and walking for ever , or you could go into the |