Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 32 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 33 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 34 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 35 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 36 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 37 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |
| 38 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 39 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 40 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 41 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 42 | And there was plenty to smash up in the shed . |
| 43 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 44 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 45 | Aggravation flares like a lit blowtorch , and a Black Maria cruises out from round a corner to pull up behind the cars . |
| 46 | He looked amazing , like Tarzan out of an old film , about to leap up into the tree-creeper . |
| 47 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 48 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 49 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 50 | This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods . |
| 51 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 52 | Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods . |
| 53 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 54 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 55 | The winding-up petition comes after the Court of Appeal last week gave Chelsea a deadline of seven days in which to come up with the money . |
| 56 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 57 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 58 | But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 . |
| 59 | Though red is the the best colour to come up with the varnish . |
| 60 | It is not a preaching philosophy , but we ask the bully to come up with the answers . ’ |