Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a careful history and physical examination permit a confident diagnosis that stands up over time . |
| 2 | Implicitly , exit costs exceeded costs of entry , largely due to the sunk costs of contacts , reputation and privileged access to information on market movements ( on the demand side ) and expertise ( on the cost side ) built up over time . |
| 3 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 4 | Every person or animal that follows the path seems to leave a trail of energy , and these energy paths build up over time . |
| 5 | Responding to Mrs Thatcher 's initiative is one way in which radicals build up over time an alternative election programme . |
| 6 | A knowledge of the context in which acts of sabotage occur — the lack of alternatives available to workers , the frustrations that build up over time — often shows sabotage to have been an understandable response . |
| 7 | Due to mechanical imperfections in the gyros of the inertial guidance equipment , errors build up with time , so the missile periodically updates its position with equipment known as TERCOM ( terrain contour matching ) . |
| 8 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 9 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 10 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 11 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 12 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 13 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 14 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 15 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 16 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 17 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 18 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 19 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 20 | They came up in time to see the penultimate line-up . |
| 21 | There was also the necessity of waking up in time to catch the transport to work . |
| 22 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 23 | Born in Hackney of Jamaican and St Lucian parents , she is conscientious about turning up on time and ‘ not having a hangover ’ . |
| 24 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
| 25 | Thank you very much for turning up on time . |
| 26 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 27 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't burn it in the grate — Dad might come back , we might n't clean up in time . |
| 29 | it was four pallets which had fell over near the door which we 're gon na get tidied up , we 'll get those tidied up in time . |
| 30 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |