Example sentences of "up [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 2 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 3 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 4 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 5 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 6 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 7 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 8 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 9 | I 've booked a table for us up West in a snazzy restaurant . ’ |
| 10 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 11 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 12 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 13 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 14 | Yet it is intriguing that on that day , he cut between Mary in the redoubt of her fells , puzzling over this ominous invasion of her feelings , and John-Augustus on the lake , drawing up char from the deep and cold lake , re-experiencing the failed innocence of his life . |
| 15 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 16 | They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car , or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds . |
| 17 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 18 | As the horses trotted past , kicking up gravel from the rough road , women in dark-brown shawls picked up their babies and shouted at their children to come inside — as though strangers from the east were liable to spell trouble . |
| 19 | Conversion of NO 2 to HNO 3 therefore effectively removes NO x from the atmosphere and thus its potential to lock up chlorine in a nonreactive form . |
| 20 | As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m . |
| 21 | This is made possible by whipping up speed with a continuous pull on the lines by the flyer . |
| 22 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 23 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 24 | Anyway , one of them escapes and sets up home in an abandoned but working car-wash in Hayes , Middlesex , while the rest die of starvation in the internment cells . " |
| 25 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 26 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |
| 27 | His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf . |
| 28 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 29 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 30 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |