Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 2 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 3 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 4 | At the end of November 1973 , over 16,000 were outstanding , and the average period from receipt to decisions ranged up to sixty-five weeks ( for cases decided by the secretary of state after a local inquiry ) . |
| 5 | The hunger strike involved up to 350 students plus thousands of supporters camped in tents in Kiev 's October Revolution Square and on the steps of the parliament building . |
| 6 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 7 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
| 8 | Until her retirement in 1982 the huge machine moved up to 140,000 tonnes of mud each year . |
| 9 | He bolted up by five lengths ( could have been 20 ) at Kelso last time , and is very well in on just a 10lb higher mark . |
| 10 | 1.00:TOP weight BOLLIN WILLIAM bolted up by 10 lengths on his reappearance at Bangor eight days ago , and will be very hard to beat in this less competitive contest off just an 8lb higher mark . |
| 11 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding bolted up by seven lengths from Miami Splash last Sunday and looks worth backing to follow up at 7–2 with Corals and Ladbrokes . |
| 12 | She absolutely bolted up by 20 lengths at Warwick recently . |
| 13 | The computer can fight on the behalf of both boxers and the outcome is based upon the fighters statistics that they built up during numerous bouts . |
| 14 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 15 | The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation . |
| 16 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 17 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 18 | Their livelihoods are important and it is entirely right that their expertise , built up over many years , should be made available to reprocess nuclear fuel when appropriate . |
| 19 | Even their footsteps were silent on the thick carpet of pine needles built up over countless years . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ The two systems , an Alpha Drum Monitor and a Neutron Coincidence Counter , are results of development and design expertise from both Risley and Sellafield built up over recent years . |
| 21 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 22 | The distributaries will build levees of the coarser parts of their load , while the areas between will be occasionally flooded , built up with finer sediments , converted into swamps and so become sites of the formation of peats and organic muds . |
| 23 | Each successive echo from a bat 's own cries produces a picture of the world that makes sense in terms of the previous picture of the world built up with earlier echoes . |
| 24 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 25 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 26 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 27 | The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference , to be held in Brazil in the same year . |
| 28 | The controversy built up around particular decisions to turn down planning applications , with angry scenes in the planning office , complaints to councillors , the involvement of community councils , letters to the local newspaper and the circulation of comment and condemnation by disappointed would-be house-builders . |
| 29 | Which makes The Edward Collection , built up by two brothers over 40 years , worth a fortune . |
| 30 | These often show a winter profile combed down into a series of bars and troughs caused by the destructive waves of winter storms and a steeper summer profile with a large inshore berm built up by swell waves of constructive type . |