Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 2 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 3 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 4 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |
| 5 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 6 | In view of the record of Conservative Governments in always putting up VAT and in view of the Prime Minister 's promises on other aspects of policy , how can he pretend that his intention is not to put up VAT ? |
| 7 | This is not to set up a system which once again asks women to do something painful and impossible , to juggle with all the expectations that come when we are working as wives and mothers and outside the home as well . |
| 8 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 9 | Your duty tonight is not to wash up , but to allow the Master to slaughter you on the black and white field — unless you play a game as wicked as Papa 's — in which case you may finish off what the Africans began on me ! ’ |
| 10 | If Britain is not to end up in a technological cul-de-sac , with a technical solution to managing nuclear waste confronted by massive political opposition , it must tackle a number of problems . |
| 11 | Management say Caldaire would need at least £3.7m if it is not to end up out of pocket . |
| 12 | A mundane pilgrimage , maybe , but the only kind of which I am capable , and one which satisfies those ‘ two thirsts that can not long be neglected if all our being is not to dry up : I mean loving and admiring ’ . |
| 13 | And the chicken is not to come up here again , is that understood ? |
| 14 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 15 | One other thing is just to chase up procedures we 're going to put on the passes for attendants and visitors and that still has n't been done . |
| 16 | It 's just to go up . |
| 17 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 18 | The company is also to set up PDAs in North America and the Far East with dates to be decided . |
| 19 | Catherine Gallagher , who runs Kindercare Nanny in New York , is back to drum up candidates to meet an increasing demand in the US for Irish nannies . |
| 20 | The trick is simply to add up the numbers . |
| 21 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 22 | He is there to build up Lennie 's character and to build up their dream . |
| 23 | There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving . |
| 24 | One of the practical tasks which may be taught to the patient in prone lying is how to get up from the floor . |
| 25 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 26 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 27 | nothing 's about to turn up . |
| 28 | The Gate House project 's about to open up in the middle of town , which is a drop in centre , sponsored by city centre churches . |
| 29 | Oh , he 's not abandoning his most famous role ; but he 's about to pop up in all sorts of other places — and sporting a groovy new haircut … |
| 30 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |