Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 2 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 3 | In addition , participants will have the opportunity to brush up on their skills in radio and video production , journalism and graphic design . |
| 4 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 5 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 6 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 7 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 8 | The man in charge of road mending in one county says they have n't got the money to keep up with repairs . |
| 9 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
| 10 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 11 | He halted , forcing the rest of the field to bunch up behind him , a captive audience to all they said . |
| 12 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 13 | A BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 14 | But a BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 15 | The decision to team up with former colleagues from Teesside and South Wales means the campaign is on the way to becoming nationwide . |
| 16 | I found a quiet corner of the deck to gaze up at the moonless sky . |
| 17 | It was held , appropriately , on the first day of Michaelmas when , in medieval times , pigs were traditionally turned out into the woods to fatten up on acorns . |
| 18 | Keyword Search : This allows the user to list up to five terms which can then be inter-related in order to combine the meanings of the word . |
| 19 | LISTREL will then prompt the user to enter up to a maximum of 32 valid charge codes which are to be included in the Listing . |
| 20 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 21 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 22 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 23 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 24 | Industry analysts consulted about the failure of the deal to sell up to 30% of Electronic Data Systems Corp to British Telecommunications Plc unanimously concurred that the deal was more critical for EDS owner General Motors Corp than for EDS and would have no short-term impact on the world 's largest systems integration company . |
| 25 | I could n't imagine any of them having the nerve to stand up to Filmer and demand their money . |
| 26 | But then perhaps few have the nerve to speak up with their unit commander and two captains looking on . |
| 27 | Extrinsic feedback is provided by the teacher in the form of information about the success or failure of the practice to match up to the standard performance . |
| 28 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 29 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 30 | The essence of showmanship had become the capacity to build up from one 's regular audience , to bring in whole families , to attract women and children , to win over religious families who were normally against organized entertainment , to convince trade unionists and the politically active that a moment 's respite was harmless enough , and to convince the respectable and well-to-do that a visit to the movies was not a disgraceful act . |