Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the chasm which was to grow up between the established Anglican church of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with its close links to the powerful secular state and English nonconformity with its tenacity and separateness , than to contrast the pride and grandeur of Wren 's St Paul 's with the humbleness and lack of pretension of Jordans meeting-house . |
| 2 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 3 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 4 | Then the sections of the Second International had divided up between the different belligerent powers . |
| 5 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 6 | Unlike their predecessor who typically worked up through the various functional departments and divisions of the enterprise , gaining ‘ hands-on ’ experience , the new manager cultivates a ‘ fast track ’ career by job-hopping and scoring up quick symbolic ‘ wins ’ . |
| 7 | And being married to David made up for a great many afternoon teas and Women 's Institute meetings . |
| 8 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 9 | On March 26th in Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital , they signed up for a four-nation Southern Cone Common Market by the end of 1994 . |
| 10 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 11 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 12 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 13 | Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person ? |
| 14 | A correction factor was then applied , as before , to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 15 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 16 | Get your initials up for the ultimate high score . ’ |
| 17 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 18 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 19 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 21 | Oxford 's Yinka Idowa continues her run up for the forthcoming outdoor season , this time indoors , jumping for Great Britain in the Pearl Assurance games in Glasgow . |
| 22 | Ballesteros tuned up for the Moroccan Open , which begins today at King Hassan II 's private golf course at Agadir , by playing for Europe in a special international match against Africa yesterday and said : ‘ We need more of this type of golf . ’ |
| 23 | We have to ensure that people who deserve to be locked up for the public good are locked up . |
| 24 | A whole pig is served up for the main New Year feast , and bean curd , sausages and special wine are prepared . |
| 25 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 26 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 27 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 28 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 29 | That a similar system be set up for the archival negative collections which would be rehoused within the proposed new photographic suite . |
| 30 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |