Example sentences of "[conj] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 2 | The results of companies acquired or disposed of in the year are dealt with from or up to the effective date of acquisition or disposal respectively . |
| 3 | Of particular interest in the mouse is the observation that up to the 8th day of gestation the isolated embryonic region will give rise to transplantable tumours when placed beneath the testis or kidney capsule ( 16,17 ) . |
| 4 | In batch mode the user can request that up to the total number of charge codes established in the system are included in the Listing . |
| 5 | The overwhelming evidence from research studies into NHS decision-making , summarised by Harrison , demonstrates that up to the early 1980s the culture of NHS management was shaped by their relatively weak position vis-à-vis doctors ( Harrison 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 7 | whatever you , whatever your grant is whether it 's eight hundred pounds , parents subsidize that up to the two thousand whatever |
| 8 | Time to first print is roughly 45 seconds and multi-copy printing pulls that up to the rated 6 pages per minute claimed for the unit . |
| 9 | Again , his fingers teased her , running a path of torturing heat about her thigh , and up over the jutting bone of her hip , close — far too close ! — to that part of her where the aching need had its centre . |
| 10 | ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches . |
| 11 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 12 | From Mynydd Ddu the Way pushes northwards through the town of Llandovery and up into the Cambrian Mountains , passing close to the shores of the huge reservoir , Llyn Brianne . |
| 13 | A curved arm scythes through the air and the body follows its lead , spiralling to the ground where deft work ( and powerful abdominal and back muscles ) produce a smooth synthesis of movement , driving it across the floor and up into the next sequence . |
| 14 | It is interesting that nearly all music-hall artists adapted successfully ; evidently , years of projecting the voice over the orchestra and up towards the upper circle without the help of loudspeakers was good training . |
| 15 | As the school filed across the High Street and up towards the Common , Robert found he was sweating . |
| 16 | The Way continues up into the Black Mountains going over Sugar Loaf and up onto the main escarpment . |
| 17 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 18 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 19 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 20 | For operations above this and up to the new five metre maximum , the installer simply removes a push-fit restrictor from the appliance . |
| 21 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 22 | Part of the east front of the West Wing , with stairs leading into area VI ( right ) and up to the first floor ( left ) |
| 23 | He turned into the still-deserted Lombard Street and up to the great stocks just before the Poultry . |
| 24 | They took the baby for rides in the pram , to the shops , and up to the tiny park with its three or four flowerbeds and margin of trees . |
| 25 | Despite the ill-judged backing of Parliament in the civil war , the family flourished and up to the present century remained prominent in Cornish — and national — affairs . |
| 26 | The columns ( and there may be twenty or more ) represent chronological periods — pre-historic , pre- and post-Conquest , and up to the present day — and the numerous rows represent identified fields of study . |
| 27 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 28 | Her lips felt swollen from his kiss , her body shuddering as she felt his hand , pressed tensely against her spine , hesitate for a moment and then , as if he could not stop himself , slide around caressingly over her slender body and up to the full swell of her breast . |
| 29 | of the waiting landau and up to the charming flat |
| 30 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |