Example sentences of "[vb base] up in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 2 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 3 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 4 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 5 | The stones line up in corrugated rows |
| 6 | So the diffraction of laser photons becomes a novel form of Bragg reflection , which effect showed originally that X-rays are electromagnetic waves and that atoms in solids line up in ordered arrays . |
| 7 | Moreover , a common feature of scanning is that early signals often show up in unexpected places . |
| 8 | We share a vast depth of vulnerability which we cover up in different ways . |
| 9 | Another material used for guttering is aluminium , which is sometimes joined with silicone or butyl-based sealants and sometimes put up in long lengths by the supplier . |
| 10 | Shearwaters are less vociferous on nights of the full moon and fewer return to the island — so , on a suitably black night , wrap up in warm clothes , shine your torch and head along the path which leads through scratchy heather , hummocks of thrift , and knee-high bracken , to the tussocky bumps of a cliff-top colony . |
| 11 | Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families . |
| 12 | In particular , stresses set up in such samples can be relieved in all directions whereas stresses in bedrock are much more concentrated since the rock is confined both laterally and vertically . |
| 13 | The move came amidst concern about the high levels of bad debt carried by the Nigerian banking system , particularly that held by some of the smaller banks set up in recent years . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions , so neither group should be able to get in . |
| 15 | Windfarms are groups of 100ft high wind turbines set up in exposed areas to create electric power . |
| 16 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 17 | You may replant in the old containers or pot up in individual pots for replanting later . |
| 18 | The responsibility would stretch from duties to the manufacturers — like Fiat , Ford , Renault , Honda , Toyota , Mercedes Benz and Peugeot — to the smell and content of the fuel , the quality of the tyres , the size , shape and speed of the cars and the overall image of a business in which , when people talk of budgets , the figures ring up in unreal lines of noughts . |
| 19 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 20 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 21 | The age groups start at 19–24 and go up in five-year bands to 80-plus . |
| 22 | The fireworks — £3,000 worth of them go up in 60 seconds on the final whistle — have been dubbed ‘ a pyrotechnic holocaust ’ by killjoy critics . |
| 23 | The castle and grounds , which include the greatest arboretum in Poland , at present belong to the colossal state forestry authority , while the collections have been dispersed not only to Poznan , but also to Warsaw , whose National Museum is sitting on the remains of the unique collection of Etruscan and Greek vases ( some are in Moscow , while others were looted by the Germans , along with all the Limoges enamels , some of which regularly turn up in Western collections ) . |
| 24 | Milk , wheat , potatoes and sugar are our four ‘ zero ’ foods — they are staple ingredients of the British diet and turn up in various ways at almost every meal . |
| 25 | Addressee honorifics ( including dishonorifics and intimacy markers ) , for example , turn up in lexical alternates or suppletive forms ( in e.g. Javanese ; Geertz , 1960 ) , in morphology ( in e.g. Japanese ; Harada , 1976 ) , in particles or affixes ( in e.g. Tamil ; Levinson , 1979b ) , in segmental phonology ( in e.g. Basque ; Corum , 1975 : 96 ) , in prosodics ( in e.g. Tzeltal honorific falsetto ; Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 272 ) , and in many cases a mixture of these ( in e.g. Javanese , Japanese , Madurese , Korean ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Our Victorian-style boxes turn up in all sorts of situations , ’ Mike explains , ‘ from the storage of socks to window displays in clothes shops . |
| 27 | Also , hoards and other important finds continually turn up in random fields or during building developments The possibilities for making early finds are therefore good , as is the potential for the future . |
| 28 | You turn up in unexpected places . |
| 29 | Other welcome guests are Brittle Stars , which often turn up in zoanthid colonies or tangled in the branches of gorgonians . |
| 30 | Occasionally gem-like species which have not yet been identified , turn up in imported collections of fish . |