Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can sometimes mean throwing away your own idea when your art director has come up with a better one — very hard on your ego but a necessary victory for good judgement . |
| 2 | Marr and his colleagues have come up with a simpler explanation which relies on the fact that there are two classes of ganglion cells , on-centre and off-centre . |
| 3 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 4 | Pigs bred for life inside do n't do well outside — so the Pig Improvement Company has come up with a tougher type of pig . |
| 5 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 6 | But even if it is n't , it is far better to start with a concise piece of information which can be built up into a bigger story if the circumstances are right than to send out a wordy release which is immediately discarded . |
| 7 | Both have pushed up against a lower limit which is , I believe , economic in character . |
| 8 | The marginal platform of the Z1 Carbonate is made up of a lower unit of light-coloured , bioturbated and fossiliferous carbonate mudstones , and an upper unit of reefs which pass laterally into oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 9 | Loosely-woven textured varieties are often made up into a heavier type of unlined sheer curtain . |
| 10 | Some of this deficit was made up by a further encroachment upon the lands of the Church ; the chantries were dissolved in 1548 and episcopal property came under pressure towards the end of the reign . |
| 11 | The casting would then be cleaned up with a graver to remove residual material and to sharpen the outlines , and then polished . |
| 12 | THE debate on ways in which Merseyside might benefit from up to £1bn in EC grants is being opened up to a wider audience in a novel fashion later this month . |
| 13 | To complicate the situation , let us assume that the package under consideration is itself called up from a higher package with a different manager . |
| 14 | But ( if permission is not a pre-1968 Act one ) the trench digger may be brought up against a further provision : he may be served with a ‘ completion notice ’ . |
| 15 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 16 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |
| 17 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 18 | This suggests an important theme which will be taken up in a later discussion of Paisley 's leadership style . |
| 19 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 20 | With a soft , luxurious feel , they are wonderfully comfortable for wearing around the home , but could just as easily be dressed up for a smarter occasion . |
| 21 | They are backed up to a greater or lesser extent by many powerful bodies , such as the foreign trade agencies of the major hegemon powers , and ( in parts of the Third World ) specialized bodies like the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) . |
| 22 | Returning to his cab , he reversed in until he was backed up to a smaller , mustard-coloured van in the adjoining space behind . |