Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heater was magnificent — a piece of copper tubing from the engine up between the two front seats meant regular stops for fresh air before we realised we were being poisoned by fumes . |
| 2 | Not one student has signed up for the ten weekly lectures under the title Margaret Thatcher — Fact Or Fiction . |
| 3 | One is a man , Sergio Malandro , physically a cross between a lorry driver and an Italian gigolo , who dresses up as a five year-old in short trousers . |
| 4 | The company is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture with the French educational publisher Magnard , which has started to move into general trade publishing with its recent acquisitions of the New Age publisher Dervy and the children 's and general academic imprint Vuibert . |
| 5 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 6 | They included the delivering up of the two named individuals for trial , recognition of responsibility for acts , willingness to pay compensation , the disclosure of information relating to the IRA and renunciation of terrorism . |
| 7 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 8 | The mean follow up of the 73 living patients was six years ( range 4–12 ) . |
| 9 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 10 | If we did that then face it , Fred , we 'd end up like a dozen other so-called topical news programmes . |
| 11 | For example , if I 'm starting college and searching for somewhere to live , I might come up with a dozen possible ideas . |
| 12 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 13 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 14 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 16 | the mean duration of follow up in the 14 remaining patients was 4.5 years ( range : 1–7.5 years ) . |
| 17 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 18 | Appreciating that the key to a successful season lies in winning the replay against Portsmouth , Wright has no intention of allowing his team-mates to ease up in the two intervening League games . |
| 19 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 20 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 21 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 22 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 23 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 24 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 25 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 26 | But at a conference today , chief executives of some of the country 's biggest companies have been hearing how up to a thousand new jobs could be created . |
| 27 | Every day , anything up to a thousand illegal Asian workers are crowding into Tokyo 's main immigration bureau , asking to be deported . |
| 28 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 29 | It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable … |
| 30 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |