Example sentences of "[verb] up in [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 2 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 3 | There are at least 36 million people to be won for Christ , but where are the plans drawn up in response to the challenge and opportunity ? |
| 4 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 5 | The plans have been drawn up in response to concern over the nuclear industry 's long-term financial future , particularly after the end of the non-fossil fuels levy in 1998 . |
| 6 | The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness . |
| 7 | Environmentalists reacted with caution to the UK government 's White Paper on the future of the coal industry , drawn up in response to the widespread protests over the announcement of pit closures in October [ see ED 64 ] . |
| 8 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 9 | But the world may end up with both projects , a waste of resources that will stunt other science — and might well hold back particle physics , as generations of physicists find themselves growing up in thrall to the vast machines , with no alternative experiments to pursue . |
| 10 | On the other side of the thick wall , the boiler fired up in response to some secret signal . |
| 11 | Throughout the Prussian east a wide range of specifically Polish cultural organisations sprang up in response to this pressure : the Slav Literary Society ( 1836 ) , the Wroclaw Flute Choral Society ( 1890 ) , the Sokoł Physical Culture Society ( 1894 ) , and the Association of Polish Boy Scouts in Germany ( 1912 ) . |
| 12 | Boys sitting on the right-hand side of the bus , for example , would set up in opposition to the boys on the left in order to have someone to mock and to shout joking imprecations at . |
| 13 | The analytical solution does not , however , allow for objects breaking up in response to aerodynamic forces . |
| 14 | Much of the committee 's and the JMU 's perception of the profession to date has been derived from early visits set up in response to doubts created by registration information and by JMU visits in response to complaints . |
| 15 | Like most voluntary sector services , those for the black community have sprung up in response to local needs . |
| 16 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 17 | They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily . |
| 18 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 19 | But they were very reluctant to attend antenatal classes and so this club had been set up in response to this . |
| 20 | These models from the ‘ me ’ generation are frequently set up in opposition to the ‘ they ’ models of the parents ' generation . |
| 21 | On Wednesday , facing demands for more detail , Mr Lamont 's deputy , Michael Portillo , and the Treasury said that benefits would only go up in proportion to the RPI . |
| 22 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 23 | For instance , although close relationships are usually protective , they can sometimes interfere with an adaptive mode of defence such as denial , which a person might be setting up in response to a particularly threatening event . |
| 24 | Equally , there would be nothing to prevent private social work companies setting up in opposition to local authority and voluntary agency workers ; private training companies are already emerging . |
| 25 | Its role was to boost tourism in the region , but it ended up in debt to just those it was supposed to help . |
| 26 | With some applications though , you may need to change your printer set up in order to be able to use them . |
| 27 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 28 | The Qualitas Furnishing Standards Scheme , set up in response to an Office of Fair Trading report in 1990 , was expensive and would need active support if it is to progress . |
| 29 | The insurance giants were being snapped up in response to the strong turnround in their fortunes . |