Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 2 | She might have succeeded in reaching him , but the tree was laden with apples and as she moved up among the higher branches where the fruit had almost ripened , apples began to cascade down . |
| 3 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 4 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 5 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 6 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 7 | Whereas a statement about services to follow will not be rendered ‘ false ’ by the services not matching up to the earlier statement , a subsequent statement which is false when made can attract liability . |
| 8 | Such references also tended to crop up in the earlier discussion of attitudes to particular tasks : this comment of Jean Bevan 's is representative : |
| 9 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 10 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 11 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 12 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 13 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 14 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 15 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | I have therefore asked Establishment if the room on the fourth floor can be cleared of stores and made available for our clerical staff , and if , as you requested , desks and other facilities for our own use can be got up into the smaller room at the top of the spiral staircase … |
| 17 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 18 | The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular . |
| 19 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 20 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 21 | As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family . |
| 22 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 23 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 24 | Krassowski 's pictures bring out with humour and affection his countrymen 's underlying strength , while facing up to the darker side of their nature ( 11 Apr. –6 May ) . |
| 25 | I do n't mean here , this version necessarily , but you 're not the only person in the world who keeps up with the wider literature , you know . |
| 26 | In the 1920s , State museums stocked up with the better known works by profiting from confiscations and arrests ; in the 1930s and 1940s , by profiting from arrests and confiscations , and even from the unseen but colossal stockpile of war trophies . |
| 27 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 28 | The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses . |
| 29 | In 1982 a further project entitled ‘ Study and information skills in schools ’ , was set up at the NFER to extend the above work , with the following aims : |
| 30 | Special local/central government ‘ partnerships ’ were to be set up in the larger cities to supervise the implementation of programmes . |