Example sentences of "up [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A but seeing that the official figures were published every month our wages went up or down every month . |
| 2 | If the ground is hard , and even a bit bumpy , the ball will usually bumble its way quite satisfactorily up or down a bank and distance is fairly easy to judge . |
| 3 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
| 5 | Slide the chord shape up or down the fretboard into various keys and the scale goes with it , so to speak . |
| 6 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 7 | They are executed by drawing a finger rapidly up or down the strings . |
| 8 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 9 | Every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset a flag was run up or down the flagstaff on our roof ; it was the company flag but we thought it was Fa 's . |
| 10 | The effect of this profoundly important innovation was that members of Congress were required to vote up or down the administration 's complete package of cuts at the beginning of the congressional phase of the budgetary process . |
| 11 | On most adjustable looms the vertical beams are fixed and one or both of the horizontal beams , which hold the warp strands in place , can be moved up or down the frame . |
| 12 | A 15–20 minute drive by car ( included in the price ) leads to quiet beaches and , a further five minutes up or down the coast , are a stretch of interesting small resorts from Bari to Brindisi . |
| 13 | But er then there was others sort of cheap joints you know , they just rushed things up and just a couple of just er When you see some of th You know that goodwill shop that that the thing when you when you see a lot of the things that 's supposed to be polished , you know , they 're just varnished over . |
| 14 | The girl got up and not a crease marked the skirt of her suit . |
| 15 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 16 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 17 | They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 . |
| 18 | If the carpet in the bedroom is soiled , this will be more difficult to clear up and so the puppy is more likely to foul here again . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , you do not let yourself pay attention to your symptoms , or worry about whether they are there or not , then it is less likely the vicious circle will be set up and so the symptoms will not get worse . |
| 20 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 21 | It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor . |
| 22 | So I removed a rubber-handled wrench from the tool kit — a souvenir of a summer working on rich people 's yachts in southern Ireland — and weighed it up and down a couple of times . |
| 23 | ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’ |
| 24 | If you look carefully , you may see some ridge and furrow which lie in a reverse-S pattern , a result of the logistics facing the medieval ploughman , who had to manoeuvre eight oxen up and down a field . |
| 25 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 26 | ‘ I make costumes myself , ’ she told him eagerly , eyeing up and down a Harlequin who 'd appeared beside her . |
| 27 | For example , in the first left-hand chord , the top part moves up and down a semitone , while the bottom two parts do the opposite . |
| 28 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 29 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 30 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |