Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 2 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 3 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 4 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 5 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 6 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 7 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 8 | If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 10 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 11 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 12 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 13 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 14 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 15 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 16 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 17 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 18 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 19 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 21 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 22 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 23 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 24 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 25 | Much of the pollution is caused by a backlog of fertilizers , built up over the last 30 years , seeping into the groundwater which feeds many of the dykes . |
| 26 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 27 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 28 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 29 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 30 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |