Example sentences of "up [noun] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again several factors explain this distribution : the higher mortality of very heavy drinkers ; the influence of social attitudes ; the fact that when the older age groups grew up attitudes against drink and for temperance were very much stronger ; and possibly the fact that the reduced incomes of older people offer less opportunity to consume alcohol ( there is a clear relationship between alcohol consumption and disposable income ) . |
| 2 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 3 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 4 | No overall body , such as the ICDMA , has set up rules for trading and trading is generally more fragmented than in the dollar CD market . |
| 5 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
| 6 | I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water . |
| 7 | It became clear to the teachers that many of the objectives of the research model identified above could be achieved by building up skills of co-observation and self-evaluation within and between teachers . |
| 8 | Howells maintained that Kylie represented the UP side of life and would be a continuing pop power because she would never lose the sense of fun she injected into every new project . |
| 9 | Dexter was constantly surprised by her resilience , her ability to summon up reserves of concentration and energy . |
| 10 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 11 | Now the wind was inside , whipping my veils and skirts around me , picking up folds of cloth and dropping them , slamming inner doors . |
| 12 | How about , say , the needle-thin candiru fish , which swims up trails of urine and , when it gets to where it 's going , opens up like an umbrella … [ that 's enough candiru fish — Ed … ] |
| 13 | One by one , governments gave up sovereignty for stability and acceded to the TAPIR . |
| 14 | Does the governors ' report to parents ever pick up elements of dissatisfaction and ways in which this was addressed ? |
| 15 | Colon motility studies in the 1960s suggested that in constipation , the motility index ( frequency×amplitude of contraction ) is increased , holding up passage of stool and causing abdominal pain . |
| 16 | We want to open up lines of communication and provide more information so that people know what is available , tell us when they are pleased with the services and , equally , let us know when they are not . |
| 17 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 18 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
| 19 | This monumental image was designed to stir up emotions of awe and respect , but could scarcely evoke feelings of warmth and affection . |
| 20 | They can be used to completely encompass a big warren system , they can be used to divide up areas of woodland and they can be operated both at night and by day when conditions are favourable . |
| 21 | Current concerns regarding the moral state of the nation and high levels of crime will , I have no doubt , set up targets for blame and cause resources to be put into headline catching projects to ‘ deal ’ with offenders — in the meantime monies and effort put into the social education of our ordinary young people are diminishing . |
| 22 | Having won the vote , women were able to make good their claims to the right to sit on juries and to take up seats in Parliament and local government . |
| 23 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 24 | He will pick up £375,000 in compensation and his shareholding is worth £136,000 . |
| 25 | Extra Antarctic research will both enhance the British presence in the region and provide the information required to draw up conventions on fishing and mineral wealth . |
| 26 | Then they re-peopled the village , opening up the doors and window vents of all the cottages , and letting the moorland winds blow through , raising up spectres of dust and shrouds of dislodged spider 's web . |
| 27 | This is associated with those defects , imperfections , undesirable traits of character , disposition , temperament , etc. , characteristic of imperfectly coordinated people struggling through life beset with certain maladjustments of the psycho-physical organism , which are actually setting up conditions of irritation and pressure during both sleeping and waking hours . |
| 28 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 29 | Grouped in a holding called System-Kontakt , they will set up deals between east and west . |
| 30 | Why do the starlings in my garden pull up stalks of marjoram and fly off with them ? |