Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 2 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 3 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 4 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 5 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 6 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 7 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 8 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 9 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 10 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 11 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 12 | Station Officer Eric Warrior , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said anyone entering the building could easily fall up to 15 metres into the basement of the premises . |
| 13 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 14 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 15 | One cow will yield up to 23 litres ( 5gal ) of milk and 4½ litres ( 1gal ) should make 450g ( 1lb ) of cheese . |
| 16 | Born with a kidney defect , he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy . |
| 17 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 18 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 19 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 20 | This is a branch of the Association devoted to the more senior ex-Manorians who would like to meet up with old friends , but who find it difficult to join in with the annual reunions . |
| 21 | For the travellers it 's a chance to meet up with old friends and enjoy themselves . |
| 22 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 23 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 24 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 25 | The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events . |
| 26 | Traders breaching these rules could be fined up to 60,000 lei ( approximately US$3,180 ) and have profits confiscated . |
| 27 | Under the bill , anyone who falsely accused fruit or vegetables of being tainted with dangerous preservatives or pesticides could be fined up to three times the value of lost product . |
| 28 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 29 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 30 | That sensitivity rises when they are ovulating , becoming up to 10,000 times more acute than at menstruation . |