Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way of seeing Cutler 's position , especially his historical schema , is as a conflation of Marx and Marshall McLuhan ; ‘ mode of production ’ as organizing concept gets mixed up with the Canadian communication theorist 's ‘ medium is the message ’ philosophy , in which consciousness , cultural forms and social organization all derive primarily from the effects of the various media . |
| 2 | He was ‘ more largely mixed up with the principal people and events of his time than any other man ’ ( Charles Greville , Greville Memoirs , 1874–8 ) . |
| 3 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 4 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 5 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 6 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 7 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 8 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 9 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 10 | They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange . |
| 11 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 12 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 13 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 14 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 15 | It 's very new to me ; it 's just too bad that they still have n't come up with the perfect guitar synth . |
| 16 | In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ . |
| 17 | Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth : |
| 18 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 19 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 20 | East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer . |
| 21 | So , we 've come up with the Practical PC-ometer . |
| 22 | It can not be much fun to have a big crowd turn against you when you have come up with the top score of the day , inspired your team , and done your best to uphold the game 's standards of decency and chivalry . |
| 23 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 24 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 25 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 26 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 27 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 28 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 29 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 30 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |