Example sentences of "up [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 2 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | I guess it 's because I hit them up for so many guitars , they had to even out the balance ! ! |
| 4 | Yeah but no I mean Caroline down there have had lights up for about six weeks . |
| 5 | and then tie it up for about three weeks . |
| 6 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 7 | Warm up for about 22 minutes . |
| 8 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 9 | More news from casualty corner : this week 's cover stars THERAPY ? compromised themselves just a tad during their KEVIN CUMMINS photo session when drummer FYFE calmly excused himself , walked out of shot mid-click and proceeded to chuck his guts up for about ten minutes . |
| 10 | Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all . |
| 11 | I went straight over and I did n't get up for about ten minutes . |
| 12 | Boredom is often used as an excuse but according to sex specialist Dr Otto Kernberg it 's just a cover up for more complex reasons . |
| 13 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 14 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 15 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 16 | Last night Davidson , host of the BBC snooker game show Big Break , admitted his marriage had broken up after just three years . |
| 17 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 18 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 19 | When the various treaties came up for review ( the Zollverein was made up of over 200 agreements ) , Prussia would often threaten to withdraw if the terms did not suit her . |
| 20 | This view quite clearly rejects a left perspective : the idea that society is made up of just two classes ; that economic class is the only major , or " real " , line of cleavage ; and that conflict is deep , bitter and unrelenting . |
| 21 | Marx 's theory is an attempt to accept both types of accounts of the Orient and to explain the apparent unity of states often made up of previously independent units which nevertheless co-operated in great communal works such as road building ( among the Inca ) and large-scale irrigation ( in Asia ) . |
| 22 | Hard coral colonies of species such as Goniopora and Favites are made up of individually small polyps and it would be possible to divide a colony into several separate pieces . |
| 23 | The co-operative , made up of both former patients and ordinary workers , continued to hold the contract for cleaning all mental health centres and former hospital buildings after the closure of the hospital . |
| 24 | ‘ It is helpful to imagine that everything is made up of very small particles called atoms ’ comes , not from some yellowing dog-eared textbook but from the new National Curriculum . |
| 25 | The latest sub-atomic theories , for example , say that we are all made up of infinitely thin pieces of string which may exist in ten dimensions . |
| 26 | The first of those facts is that animals and humans are made up of almost identical bits and pieces . |
| 27 | The consequent build up of osmotically active particles within the gut lumen inhibits water reabsorption by the gut wall . |
| 28 | Most countries have systems of government that are relatively modern creations , either designed after cataclysmic political events which required the setting up of entirely new institutions , or set up to meet the needs of newly created or newly independent states . |
| 29 | In a questionnaire follow up of mainly polysymptomatic patients ( median duration nine years , 70% response ) the number of severe and frequent symptoms had reduced from five to one per patient more than six months after inpatient investigation and 38% said that they were well or almost well . |
| 30 | It is one thing for a government to look benignly upon — say — a rescue of Ferranti ; or on the swallowing up of much smaller players in the defence business . |