Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they manage to collect 50kg of the slag which is washed ashore from the coalmines further up the coast they 'll be paid 80 pesos , that 's about 10 pence . |
| 2 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
| 3 | The direct way takes shattered cracks straight up the wall ahead , tending R to a good ledge on crest in 35m . |
| 4 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 5 | Troublemakers higher up the salary structure are brought to heel with an invitation to contribute 500 lei to the national debt . |
| 6 | These are hollow and are connected to poison glands further up the legs . |
| 7 | In practice its major consequences are : ( a ) the assignment of responsibility for assisting a team preparing a review to individual members of committees higher up the tree ; and ( b ) collapsing levels , e.g. by having MMRC members attend a department 's review of its own fields , so that there is no need for a separate event and the process of review can be observed . |
| 8 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
| 9 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 10 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 11 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |
| 12 | There were two other mills further up the stream , Tocknells , which has long been demolished and Eddels , that still survives as a house . |
| 13 | Some thirty yards further up the alley , huddled in another doorway nearer to the fire escape , was his partner , a young black detective name of Joe Foster . |
| 14 | ‘ You can stuff those warrants right up the Corps commander 's bum . ’ |
| 15 | The wheels need to be changed for China and the officials … ’ — she indicated a rank of grey-coated youths further up the platform — ‘ they will expect you to stand in the corridor while they search your room . |
| 16 | While he made his way swiftly but lightly across the boggy ground , giving his feet no time to be drawn down , the men higher up the bank were fastening the rest of the horses to the leash . |
| 17 | Instead , its officials believe that the unification of Europe 's financial markets after 1992 puts electronic link-ups between European derivative markets higher up the agenda . |
| 18 | Finkelstein ( 1991 ) has argued that this has created a hierarchical view of disability , with groups higher up the hierarchy adopting alienistic attitudes to those seen to be lower down . |
| 19 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 20 | Systems higher up the management tree identify issues upon which review is to focus . |
| 21 | There are many unexplained events on the Keighley and Worth Valley line that runs from Keighley to Oxenhope five miles further up the branch . |
| 22 | The Rome-bound train had been unavoidably delayed in Montreux after a small avalanche had blocked the track five miles further up the line . |
| 23 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |