Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Fixed-sum versus running-account : an obvious distinction between credit for a fixed amount of money ( such as HP , fixed loans of money ) and credit , perhaps up to a fixed ceiling , which may fluctuate up and down depending on what the borrower draws or pays in ( such as shop budget accounts , credit cards , bank overdrafts ) .
2 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
3 ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said .
4 Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ?
5 Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about .
6 Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point .
7 The metrics in both regions are unaltered , since a null electromagnetic field is defined by the metric only up to a constant duality rotation .
8 Subsection ( 5 ) defines ‘ relevant shares ’ as : ‘ shares in the company other than — ( a ) shares which as respects dividends and capital carry a right to participate only up to a specified amount in a distribution , and ( b ) shares which are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme or , in the case of shares which have not been allotted , are to be allotted in pursuance of such a scheme . ’
9 The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region .
10 There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age :
11 The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia .
12 For example , a person witnesses the following events in a swimming pool : A tall adolescent boy walks purposefully up behind a small coloured child and pushes him strongly into the pool .
13 The next morning , he laced up his walking boots while Detective Furness , squinting doubtfully up at the cloudy sky , telephoned the mountain rescue post on the other side of the peak to advise the guide of their intentions .
14 So up to the third bay ; all the area at the western end up to the gangway was devoted to Tilt Van repairs under chargehand W. Hyde ( Ponnie ) .
15 She stared dazedly up into a wild , glittering gaze that held her helplessly captive .
16 Paul and Blyth had fallen asleep , and Eric was lying with his hands behind his neck , staring drowsily up at the bright blue .
17 This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well .
18 Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector .
19 We lay on the brink of its descent and rolled quickly downwards , our faces full of earth and grass one instant and then rotating madly and finally up to the brazen blue sky leaking through the trees .
20 The nose-tingling aroma of rosemary in itself is enough to banish catarrh and sinus infections as it trickles coolly up into the nasal cavities and spreads behind the cheekbones and forehead .
21 Away up across the overhead bridge here you cross the you know the overhead bridge
22 Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again .
23 In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence .
24 For most teachers I have worked with , their particular stress portfolio unfolds unconsciously up to a certain point , after which they become aware of the fact that they are getting seriously stressed and need to take care of themselves .
25 Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III .
26 In the main it is the superstar golfers that the camera catches in the classic position halfway on the downswing with the hands almost in the hitting area and the clubhead still up by the right shoulder .
27 There was Mr and then a bit further up on the right hand side was a fella who used to have the contract for making the bread for the
28 A last very scenic walk to remember further up into the Wilder Kaiser mountains !
29 Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ .
30 Managers are responsible for providing their people with development opportunities , but it is always up to the individual person to take the opportunities on offer and make something of them .
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