Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 2 | He drove about in a horse and cart and one of his tricks was to whip the horse up into a canter and crouch down behind the seat so people would think it had bolted . |
| 3 | The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 . |
| 4 | Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil . |
| 5 | One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 . |
| 6 | Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same . |
| 7 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 8 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 9 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 10 | When you have received an Offer of Mortgage , to enable a bid up to a maximum agreed limit , a further visit to the property should be made near to the date of Auction , to ensure that everything is in order . |
| 11 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 12 | The new law described the " Corsican people " as " part of the French people " ; established a regional executive council with its own powers , and provided for the drawing up of a new electoral register . |
| 13 | It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs . |
| 14 | One of the main starting points is therefore the drawing up of a time-plan dependent on the consultative structure to be used . |
| 15 | Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 17 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 18 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 19 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 20 | Still smiling with pleasure , he swung the car up round a steep bend . |
| 21 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 22 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 23 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 25 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 26 | Both offer a choice of direct equity investment and unit trust investment up to the maximum £2,400 . |
| 27 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 28 | This constant cycle of warfare , involving fleets as mighty as the Spanish Armada , had kept Bouton in isolation up to the present day . |
| 29 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 30 | In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia . |