Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 5 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 6 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 8 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 9 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 10 | Experience tells us that many people who take up jogging , cycling , and other aerobic routines often sustain injuries , or simply give up after a short time . |
| 11 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 12 | I had no doubt they 'd turn up within a short time , so I went off duty . |
| 13 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 14 | Well w we did n't have to do , do anything that way because we were allowed our freedom up to a certain time and that was it . |
| 15 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 16 | It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work . |
| 17 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 18 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 19 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 20 | Now I do n't detect in the work of the er panel on doctrine up to the present time anything which tackles |
| 21 | This was on entirely modern lines and has continued to expand right up to the present time . |
| 22 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
| 23 | Up to the present time , the study of language and its relation both to processes involved in language performance and to processes underlying the activity of reasoning have been fragmented , split into the separate disciplines of linguistics , artificial intelligence , pragmatics ( the study of human communication ) , and psychology , each with their own theoretical models of language or aspects of language use . |
| 24 | The letter says ‘ Up to the present time items of play equipment have been loaned by Scorton Village School but these have now had to be returned and replacement equipment will be most beneficial for the group to continue . |
| 25 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 26 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |
| 27 | Having located a good root of title , you then need to form a chain of title from the date of that document right up to the present time . |
| 28 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 29 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 30 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |