Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range starts at 47ft ( 14.3m ) and steps up to a staggering 110ft ( 33.5m ) . |
| 2 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 3 | But it put premiums up by a third — and that cut losses from £88 million to £39 million in the six months to June . |
| 4 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 5 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 6 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 7 | She finishes what she is doing , gives herself a resolute shake and lets the sea breeze dry her , rises slowly , pulls her dark blue tights up in an unhurried manner , and adjusts her skirt . |
| 8 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 9 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
| 11 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 12 | You 're probably putting your feet up after a hard day , looking forward to a quiet evening in , perhaps ? |
| 13 | Precisely for this reason [ the anarchic factor ] there may be errors up to a certain point . |
| 14 | Below , a nylon sock curls up like a dead animal . |
| 15 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 16 | Consequently , whereas computer networks used to be regarded primarily as a way of sharing expensive equipment — for instance , by hooking several sites up to a single mainframe — now the emphasis is increasingly on the sharing of information . |
| 17 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 18 | Boxing : Sky lines up for a classic TV fight : Neil Wilson on the big battle of the small screen and growing threat of the extra terrestrial to the conventional channels : ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel .. |
| 19 | Dugard , who has been an international for five years , lines up in an experimental team against an Australian side weakened by injury . |
| 20 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 21 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 22 | Grants to the colleges of advanced technology made at the time of their transition to university status brought the college library stocks up to a similar level . |
| 23 | Two hundred soldiers , assisted by thousands of transmigrasi , were to round the elephants up over a 390 sq . |
| 24 | With typical Dwarf stubbornness Duregar led his troops up onto a small mound , the remains of an ancient Dwarf tomb , to make his last stand . |
| 25 | Many women need extra financial help from the state in order to bring their incomes up to a minimum figure and to help with their rent and rates . |
| 26 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 27 | It garnered unequivocal critical praise , the vocal admiration of many American politicians and a thumbs up from a Californian judge , who recently sent a young black offender to see the film ( in lieu of a custodial sentence ) . |
| 28 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 29 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 30 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |