Example sentences of "[verb] up in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the idea of higher education being argued for in this book can be summed up in one word , that is it . |
| 32 | Erm our problem can be summed up in one word , 'accidents ' . |
| 33 | THE reaction of the Labour Party to our campaign in the Willington East by-election can be summed up in one word panic ! |
| 34 | The true aim of the martial arts is to avoid conflict ; it is best summed up in one commentator 's description of aikido as ‘ the honourable art of getting the hell out of the way ’ . |
| 35 | The consequences of structural change in international finance can be summed up in two words : Innovation and Mobility . |
| 36 | ‘ My view of the Common market can be summed up in four words and three of them are … the Common Market . ’ |
| 37 | It was undoubtedly unusual — and normally disadvantageous — for any ruler brought up in one country to rule over another , very different , one . |
| 38 | Such rifts deepened by violence , intolerance and cruelty create ever more bitter hostility and make it increasingly difficult for persons brought up in one faith to transfer allegiance elsewhere . |
| 39 | Many children are brought up in two cultures : the culture of their parents and that of the host community . |
| 40 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 41 | Being out of doors means they are not always cooped up in one room with their mothers . |
| 42 | If you 're stupid enough to try , you 'll be eaten up in five seconds . ’ |
| 43 | He just said , ‘ I want this place cleaned up in forty minutes . ’ |
| 44 | The fireworks — £3,000 worth of them go up in 60 seconds on the final whistle — have been dubbed ‘ a pyrotechnic holocaust ’ by killjoy critics . |
| 45 | Even there it was Cabinet government because everything else was swept up in one issue . ’ |
| 46 | The best-selling book that will end up in 400,000 Christmas stockings this week was the brainchild of Guinness chief executive Sir Hugh Beaver and first published in 1955 , a time when the brewery owned 84,382 pubs in Britain . |
| 47 | That 's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year . |
| 48 | The issues which will inevitably come up in one form or another include ‘ no first use ’ of nuclear weapons , about which a good deal has been written , not least in No-First-Use ( Blackaby et al . , |
| 49 | At follow up in 1989 group means derived from the last three readings available for all hypertensives had fallen to 148/88 mm Hg for men and 145/86 mm Hg for women ( all changes p<0.001 ) . |
| 50 | Ten more Ju88s were reported approaching Grand Harbour during the afternoon with an escort of twelve Bf109s , and eight Hurricanes were sent up in two formations . |
| 51 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |
| 52 | As this Third Concerto was drafted on similar manuscript paper as the others ( and shares the same key as No. 1 ) , and portions ended up in two countries , the substantial music for it was thought to be discarded ideas for the Firsts , although all the thematic material used in it is found in music composed or published around his fifteenth year . |
| 53 | Like when we 're doing geography , we do n't seem to be working , but when we started revising we ended up in two years with seven books , which is goodness knows how much compared with chemistry or a subject like that . |
| 54 | And then he stood up in one fluid movement . |