Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 2 | As the plastic is flat then it has to be lifted up off the base of the tank . |
| 3 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 4 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
| 5 | A luxury cabin cruiser blew up off the coast of Italy . |
| 6 | We have now had in this country in the post war years six or seven ‘ contracts ’ drawn up between the triumvirate of the corporate state . |
| 7 | A major row now blew up between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment . |
| 8 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 9 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 10 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 11 | There is a great consensus building up between the peoples of East and West as to the sort of Europe they want to see . |
| 12 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 13 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 14 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , then — Alastair can go up through the Glen of the Birks and use the old byre below Urlar . |
| 16 | In fact , one of Ramsay 's greatest achievements was in the atmosphere he was able to conjure up through the depiction of materials . |
| 17 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 18 | Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club . |
| 19 | Many of today 's athletic superstars , such as Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , Roger Black , Sally Gunnell and Liz McColgan came up through the ranks of schools athletics . |
| 20 | The uppers , though , curl around grow up through the skin of the nose and , still curling , turn back towards the animal 's forehead . |
| 21 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 22 | Dating has obviously become extremely inaccurate by this level compared with the precision higher up the stratigraphical column , but presumed late Precambrian glacial deposits extend from the west of Ireland up through the Highlands of Scotland and then up through Norway to Varangerfjord near its northernmost tip . |
| 23 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 24 | In flat calm conditions , this effect can be clearly seen , since the exhaust smoke will be observed to be blown away from the model by the rotors when out of ground effect ( Fig.5.6 ) , while it will tend to form a cloud under the helicopter , or even ‘ leak ’ up through the middle of the rotors , when in ground effect ( Fig. 5. 7 ) . |
| 25 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 26 | Inspired by Professor Isaacs , the group was set up through the University of Birmingham , within the Department of Geriatric Medicine . |
| 27 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 28 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |
| 29 | She rested her head against a cushion so that she could stare straight up through the network of rigging and past the light-blanched sails to where the stars wheeled their cold fire beyond the mastheads . |
| 30 | It estimates the number of jobs lost due to improved productivity through the use of microelectronics and then deducts from these losses an estimate of the jobs gained through increased competitiveness and new markets opened up through the use of microelectronics . |