Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) . |
| 2 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 3 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 4 | Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at . |
| 5 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 6 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 7 | The paraglider itself is rectangular and made up of numerous cells or pockets running from the front to the rear of the wing . |
| 8 | The tunnel was seven feet in diameter and made up of cast-iron segments with its own air-conditioning plant , lighting and heating . |
| 9 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 10 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 11 | The outline of your notes should be based on the syllabus or programme of the subjects and built up from key words abstracted from textbooks and other writings on the topics concerned . |
| 12 | The American Express survey compared holiday prices in more than a dozen countries and came up with these contrasts : |
| 13 | The accountant realising he would not be fobbed off , tried harder and came up with some facts . |
| 14 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 15 | The champion of the people was nailed to the wooden beams and lifted up between two murderers . |
| 16 | The 10-11 fav took charge before the home turn and trotted up by 20 lengths . |
| 17 | The trendy York paving has disappeared from streets in Manchester and turned up in conservation areas in the South where it is in short supply . |
| 18 | These have to be tested and followed up in new lines of inquiry . |
| 19 | His boat beached and tied up by other hands , probably the same ones which murdered him . ’ |
| 20 | The brick tower was usually black tarred for weather protection and contained up to seven floors . |
| 21 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 22 | The cycle was bought secondhand for £20 , and cleaned up with six coats of paint . |
| 23 | After all , it did not stretch to the floor but started at three feet six and went up to seven feet . |
| 24 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 25 | MASS killer Dennis Nilsen — who strangled and dismembered up to 16 men — has faced a Silence Of The Lambs style quiz , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 26 | They said it was no more difficult to maintain than the Green Sword and had up to 50 babies per brood . |
| 27 | Also yesterday , South Korea 's intelligence chief was quoted in the Chosun Ilbo newspaper as saying he had an intelligence report that North Korea had planned to conduct nuclear tests last year and had up to 22 kilograms ( 48lb ) of weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 28 | The first earthquake , which struck at 4.58 a.m. and lasted up to 40 seconds , was centred on the remote communities of Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley , 160 km east of Los Angles . |
| 29 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 30 | The Dental News newsletter , issued by the Princeton Dental Resource Centre , based in New Jersey and picked up by dental patients in waiting rooms all over America suggested that an ingredient of cocoa , tannin , had been shown to inhibit the formation of plaque on the teeth , therefore helping stop cavities . |