Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 2 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |
| 3 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 4 | ( His claim to fame in these years was the slogan ‘ Kleenex Kitchen Towels mops up like a sponge ’ for client Kimberley Clark . ) |
| 5 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |
| 6 | This adds up to a threat to the source of Japan 's post-war strength . |
| 7 | But to be forever in child-bed , surrounded by countless sons and daughters , many of them ill ; to run a self-supporting household with endless heavy domestic chores ; to be victim to a view that a woman 's one means of self-fulfilment must be through the home — all that adds up to a state of affairs not to be envied . |
| 8 | ‘ This kind of weight reduction ca n't be met by plastic 's rivals — and it all adds up to a reduction in waste at the beginning of the cycle , which is where the environmental action should start ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That was seventeen years ago and she has n't as far as I know been seen or heard of since ; surely that adds up to a disappearance ? |
| 10 | It all adds up to a time consuming and often costly exercise . |
| 11 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 12 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 13 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 14 | Together with some unique little touches — a new menu of European and Japanese dishes , newly designed china , and real glassware — it all adds up to a world of difference . |
| 15 | It all adds up to a lot of loyalty , from staff and customers . |
| 16 | This adds up to a loss of £9.57 . |
| 17 | It adds up to a drag factor that is 13% ‘ slippier ’ through the air , which helps economy and reduces wind noise . |
| 18 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 19 | Erm , where the , the authority , not just the County Council , but the authority in the partnership , get involved in lobbying exercises with the , with the government to try to ensure that rural post offices can actually give out vehicle licences , because it 's very , if you look in the north of the county , outside the towns there 's only four post offices , I think , that can actually give out vehicle licences , and yet in the rural areas , we have a lot of people with vehicles , and we , and the way that it counts towards , the way that it counts up towards a post office 's survival , it 's these high value items are significant in keeping post offices open . |
| 20 | Mel toddles up to a driver of a white Fiesta and gets out his wiper . |
| 21 | He dresses up as a woman to play a nanny working for a yuppie in Mrs Doutfire . |
| 22 | The imploding discs of cosmic matter are rotating , and as the pressure increases the rotation speeds up like a flywheel , ultimately flinging matter out into space . |
| 23 | The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) . |
| 24 | The Ritzy fills up in a flash , and Katie the researcher has soon found all the contestants for tonight 's show . |
| 25 | But that night , when he is asleep , the creature enters his chamber and rips back his curtain — so ! — so that he wakes up with a start to find its dreadful gaze upon him , and its hand out-stretched for his throat ! |
| 26 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 27 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 28 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
| 29 | Stress is always responsible for neuro eczema , which shows up as a patch of inflammation in the nape of the neck at the top of the spine . |
| 30 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |