Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates . |
| 2 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 3 | Employing those conceptions , we can ask how we can know that we have succeeded in referring to anything , and how we can know that we have come up with an accurate description of what we have referred to . |
| 4 | The young ( you can see it in their faces ) , the stegosaurus rugged no-hopers , the parrot-crested blankies — they 've come up with an appropriate response to this , which is : nothing . |
| 5 | Electro-acoustic technology being one of the main battlegrounds in the acoustic guitar war , respected US makers Guild have come up with an all-new pickup to accompany their all-new range of guitars . |
| 6 | Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods . |
| 7 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 8 | Charles and Elizabeth seem to have come up with an intelligent expedient : they would give the boy two Christian names — the first Frome Titford ever to enjoy this luxury — and he could be called ‘ William Charles ’ after his uncle/godfather and father respectively , though they would actually use the name ‘ Charles ’ in everyday conversation . |
| 9 | Ernst & Young in the US has come up with an interesting new way to reduce overheads , according to the Public Accounting Report . |
| 10 | The city of Budapest has come up with an imaginative solution to the problem of where to put over forty years worth of statues , sculptures and monuments dedicated to the heroes and events of communism . |
| 11 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 12 | Thomson-CSF SA has come up with an undisclosed sum to buy the company as a present for Alsys SA , the company sold to Thomson by Ada only begetter Jean Ichbiah in September 1991 . |
| 13 | There 's nothing more romantic than mother nature herself and Schwarzkopf have come up with an exciting new product for colouring hair — the natural way . |
| 14 | Together with American businessman David A Gold and technical experts from West Germany , they have come up with an exciting new development for hair . |
| 15 | EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle . |
| 16 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 17 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 18 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 19 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 20 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 21 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 22 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 23 | The composition and terms of reference of urban development corporations will be changed immediately and they will in due course be wound up in an orderly way . |
| 24 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 25 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 26 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 27 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 28 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 29 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 30 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |