Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grounds of Midway Manor were transformed for the evening , with a candlelit drive leading guests up to the manor house where hot air balloons offered rides above the parkland . |
| 2 | God as an old man with a beard pulling strings up in the sky is doomed forever to be invisible and impossible . |
| 3 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 4 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 5 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Oct. 29 approved a three-year arrangement authorizing loans up to the equivalent of SDR49,420,000 ( about US$70,000,000 ) under the structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) , in support of Ethiopia 's medium-term economic reform programme . |
| 6 | On Feb. 26 the IMF had approved a standby credit for Jordan , authorizing drawings up to the equivalent of SDR 44,400,000 ( US$61,100,000 ) over 18 months , in support of the government 's economic and financial reform programme . |
| 7 | The IMF announced on April 20 that it had approved a stand-by credit for Bulgaria , authorizing drawings up to the equivalent of 155,000,000 special drawing rights ( about US$212 million ) over the next 12 months in support of the government 's economic reform programme [ see p. 38467 for previous credit approved in March 1991 ] . |
| 8 | The IMF on June 1 approved a standby credit authorizing drawings up to the equivalent of SDR314,040,000 ( about US$440,000,000 ) . |
| 9 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Nov. 8 , 1989 , approved a one-year standby arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of 64,000,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=$1.27549 as at Nov. 10 , 1989 ) in support of the government 's economic and financial programme for 1989-90 . |
| 10 | The IMF on June 23 furthermore approved an extended arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR3,703 million ( about $4,600 million ) over the next three years . |
| 11 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) had on Aug. 28 approved a standby arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR35,000,000 ( US$50,000,000 ) , the first since July 1982 , in support of the government 's economic and financial programme aimed at reducing inflation , strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to projects for economic growth . |
| 12 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |
| 13 | Once consequence of the highly oscillatory single.step response is the existence of resonance effects at stepping rates up to the natural frequency of rotor oscillation . |
| 14 | ( 6.8 ) ; A complete velocity profile for the acceleration can be built-up by repeating this process for a range of stepping rates up to the pull-out rate fm . |
| 15 | I 'm quite good at mixing things up in the pan and throwing in whatever 's available . |
| 16 | ‘ No , son , they 're not taking sweeties up to the giant ’ . |
| 17 | She began dragging chairs up to the table . |
| 18 | Van Til ( 1976 ) , in reviewing reports up to the 1970s , concludes that the seven Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education , proposed by the Commission on the Reorganisation of Secondary Education in 1918 , still apply . |
| 19 | She was also staggered by how energetically the Argentines played , hitting balls up in the air , juggling and tapping them , twisting , turning and stopping , followed by Ferrari bursts of acceleration before circling again . |