Example sentences of "[subord] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the anchorage where the destroyer headquarters ship with its rear admiral 's flag once lay , and where up to a dozen destroyers might be swinging with the tide at their buoys , was now empty water . |
| 2 | Throughout the post-1868 years the rural — urban balance was shifting away from the countryside in the wake of rapid population increase and industrialization , although up to the Pacific War at least half the population continued to reside in small towns and villages , and there was little absolute fall in the rural population until the late 1930s . |
| 3 | Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps . |
| 4 | We both heard the footsteps , those same light footsteps I had heard before , on the gravel below , coming as if up from the sea . |
| 5 | The part of this street above the church is known as the Rue de la Citadelle , because up to the right is the large classical citadel , built in the seventeenth century and reshaped soon after , along with the town walls , by the inescapable Vauban , whose job it was to make south-west France for ever safe from incursions from across the mountains . |
| 6 | Remote-control video cameras scanned back and forth , while up on the roof a nervous-looking teenager in grey overalls went his rounds , hugging a machine-gun for comfort . |
| 7 | It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery . |
| 8 | Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away . |
| 9 | President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes . |
| 10 | Under Welch and Redfarn , The Theatre Royal has co-funded productions with other theatrical managements and a consortium of West Country businessmen , embracing such shows as Up On The Roof , Brigadoon and the about-to-open Buddy , as well as working with touring companies such as Paines Plough to launch a national tour of The Art Of Success . |
| 11 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |
| 12 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 13 | But these niggles pale when up against the infuriating fact that Drop Nineteens are n't given real room to perform , their potential smothered by a relentless stream of diving dickwits , sloshed on half a pint of coke . |