Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew up ahead of her . |
| 2 | The SEC 's New York office is making informal inquiries into several instances when a share price moved up ahead of a favourable announcement about the restructuring of the company 's debt . |
| 3 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 4 | Of course , he has his faults , but I 've grown up alongside of him and , I can tell you , he 's a good guy . ’ |
| 5 | They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting . |
| 6 | This appears to be made up largely of vugs and fractures , although it is not clear whether the ‘ vugs ’ have originated from leaching of evaporites or by brecciation of the carbonates ( Pennington 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Reagan , at the beginning of his first term , appointed Vice-President Bush as chairman of a Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief which was made up largely of cabinet members and staffed by the Office of Management and Budget . |
| 8 | It was also the case in the very unmilitary Dutch Republic ; and in the Habsburg territories the Kriegskommissariat set up in 1657 and reformed by Haugwitz in the 1740s was made up largely of civilians . |
| 9 | Well the centre is made up largely of the president er and the congress but the congress is made up of politicians elected from the states local , local politicians locally accountable . |
| 10 | The club 's entry in the tenth annual Lerwick Rugby Club Sevens at the end of August was made up exclusively of Sullom Voe staff — Dave Dickson , Mal Smith , Dave Stephenson , Tony Rigby , Nick Cope , Andy Bazeley and Jeff Wood . |
| 11 | If you have an organisation that is made up mostly of these two , they 're very good at planning and having ideas ; they have wonderful intellectual and logical discussions . |
| 12 | Instead , the separation occurs much later when the embryo is made up already of many hundreds of cells . |
| 13 | The high speed ambulance fleet consists of 127 Leyland DAF 400 turbo diesels , with the balance made up primarily of fuel-hungry V6-engined petrol Ford Transit , old Freight Rover 300s , and five petrol VW LT29s . |
| 14 | The porosity of these rocks is made up predominantly of intercrystalline voids ( Fig. 22c ) formed by the selective corrosion and removal of dolomite crystals and the observed porosities and permeabilities typically range from 10–30% and 1–100 mD , respectively ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 15 | Contrary to the view projected by traditional liberal and libertarian accounts , neither the RSDWP nor the SR party was made up predominantly of intelligenty . |
| 16 | After 1750 domestic exports were made up predominantly of manufactured goods . |
| 17 | As a term , ‘ Europe ’ was first used in 732 at the Battle of Tours , when the armies fighting the Saracens were no longer made up simply of Christians . |
| 18 | Dominant social elites are not made up simply of capitalists , but also include managers and professionals , whose power rests upon their capacity to exclude others from their property , whether material or intellectual . |
| 19 | Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion , the paratroops or the naval infantry — units which are all made up entirely of volunteers . |
| 20 | In this case , the porosity is made up entirely of vugs ( Fig. 14 ) that have resulted from the leaching of crystals of replacement anhydrite ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 21 | You could go further and have an army made up entirely of Night Goblins , Savage Orcs or Forest Goblins if you wanted . |
| 22 | Combinations need not , of course , be made up entirely of attacking manoeuvres . |
| 23 | Now firmly perched at the top of the Hollywood ‘ A-list ’ of actresses , it seems strange that her career has been made up entirely of films that really have n't been all that good . |
| 24 | The answer appears to be that such was the traditional day for the ploughman from time immemorial when his team was made up solely of oxen . |
| 25 | It also holds monthly meetings , and being made up solely of people with an interest in children 's books — mainly publishers and booksellers but also authors , illustrators , agents and critics — it is a useful talking shop with no particular stance or axe to grind . |
| 26 | The herd is made up purely of females and young . |
| 27 | Heavy clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles which bind together tightly and cling to the water around them , making the clay sticky and difficult to work . |
| 28 | And finally we would come to Finnegans Wake , apparently mocking our very attempt to read by calling in question what is , I suppose , the most basic of all assumptions about writing , that whatever form it takes it will be made up essentially of recognisable words . |
| 29 | If this even movement is only slightly broken , a well-sculptured melody can result : If this melody were made up only of crotchets it would have no life ; as it is , the occasional groups of two quavers give an impulse to the flow . |
| 30 | There must be many in London society so rich that her inheritance was not a temptation to them ; it could not be made up only of rogues and fortune-hunters . |