Example sentences of "up from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 2 | You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea . |
| 3 | Whether Hewlett-Packard will actually licence System V.4 or a subsequent implementation from Unix Labs remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , System V Interface Definition 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , Unix Labs Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 4 | Whether HP will actually licence SVR4 or a subsequent implementation from USL remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , SVID 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , USL Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 5 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |
| 6 | Downstairs there were two rooms , and a short staircase led up from the front door to two attic bedrooms with tiny skylights in the roof . |
| 7 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 8 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |
| 9 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 10 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 11 | Six up from the first leg … |
| 12 | Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half . |
| 13 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
| 14 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 15 | Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening . |
| 16 | ‘ There do your kind fly , Slorne , soaring on the winds that rise up from the hot land , circling over their sites as they seek their prey of mammal and carrion , or chase a black-winged kite from off their food … ’ |
| 17 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
| 18 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 19 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 20 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 21 | Mick spoke up from the other tent . |
| 22 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 23 | Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound . |
| 24 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 25 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 26 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 27 | Heg … ? ’ a voice floated up from the open pit . |
| 28 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 29 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 30 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |