Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 2 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 3 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 4 | There are at least 36 million people to be won for Christ , but where are the plans drawn up in response to the challenge and opportunity ? |
| 5 | They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily . |
| 6 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 7 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 8 | As they had hurried their game up in response to the warning , the referee decided that they should go through Kyle and O'Grady . |
| 9 | Environmentalists reacted with caution to the UK government 's White Paper on the future of the coal industry , drawn up in response to the widespread protests over the announcement of pit closures in October [ see ED 64 ] . |
| 10 | The insurance giants were being snapped up in response to the strong turnround in their fortunes . |
| 11 | On Wednesday , facing demands for more detail , Mr Lamont 's deputy , Michael Portillo , and the Treasury said that benefits would only go up in proportion to the RPI . |
| 12 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 13 | But the world may end up with both projects , a waste of resources that will stunt other science — and might well hold back particle physics , as generations of physicists find themselves growing up in thrall to the vast machines , with no alternative experiments to pursue . |
| 14 | These models from the ‘ me ’ generation are frequently set up in opposition to the ‘ they ’ models of the parents ' generation . |
| 15 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 16 | Boys sitting on the right-hand side of the bus , for example , would set up in opposition to the boys on the left in order to have someone to mock and to shout joking imprecations at . |
| 17 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 18 | But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole . |
| 19 | Conversely , Green MEPs are concerned that the Commission 's paper has been drawn up without reference to the effects that patenting will have on farmers , breeders , consumers and the developing world . |