Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [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 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 3 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 6 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 7 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 8 | The English writer Max Beerbohm spoke of how the music-halls had ‘ grown up with reference to nothing but the public 's own needs and aspirations ’ , of how the audience was ‘ the maker of the form ’ , and of how music-hall had always offered ‘ a great chance to any student of humanity at large ’ . |
| 9 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 10 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 11 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 12 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 13 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 14 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 15 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 16 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 17 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 18 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 19 | Conversely , Green MEPs are concerned that the Commission 's paper has been drawn up without reference to the effects that patenting will have on farmers , breeders , consumers and the developing world . |
| 20 | A company was set up , a detailed survey was done , and a bill drawn up for presentation to Parliament — the usual procedure . |
| 21 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 30 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |