Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 2 | Kosovo , where Albanians made up 90 per cent of the province 's population of 2,000,000 , remained a thorny issue . |
| 3 | Why was I reminded of Parent-Teacher Association concerts , where mums dress up as Madonna ? |
| 4 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 5 | The first is in the village 's neat cemetery , where fields run up to a distant hedgerow and a sign by the gate says ‘ Fast Food Service ’ . |
| 6 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 7 | Although managers require up to date information they have access to more information on a day to day basis than external users . |
| 8 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 9 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 10 | If more than lip service is to be paid to the notion that we are all equal , then it must be first acknowledged that we are born unequal , and that some of us have to work harder than others to make up for it . |
| 11 | In the first case there were probably between 135,000 and 170,000 woollen and worsted textile workers involved in the dispute , although estimates go up to 240,000 , and every union and all sections of the textile workforce were unified in the action which they took . |
| 12 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 13 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 14 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |
| 15 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 16 | If boards take up moisture once they 've been fixed , they will expand and distort . |
| 17 | If officers throw up their commissions and troops refuse to fire , Home Rule is dead , but a great deal else is dead too . |
| 18 | Using my portable phone I was able to give the police control a running commentary of my version of the matter until officers turned up . |
| 19 | Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment . |
| 20 | A tenant needs to know exactly what a landlord can and can not do — and what legal rights there are if problems crop up . |
| 21 | Thornton accepted , agreeing to stay around and possibly play a larger role again if things looked up . |
| 22 | ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising . |
| 23 | The first is the person who responds to every assertion with the question ‘ How do you know that ? ’ and then , whatever is offered , merely repeats the question until answers dry up . |
| 24 | Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer . |
| 25 | Many people would feel that if children grew up to know nothing of their ‘ heritage ’ this would be a serious threat to national identity . |
| 26 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 27 | And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase . |
| 28 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 29 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I still maintain we were the best team in the tournament until injuries caught up with us . |