Example sentences of "up [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall 1991 start up award of £1000 and the Belfast Telegraph prize of £2000 worth of advertising . |
| 2 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |
| 3 | After chalking up debts of ¥500 billion ( $3.5 billion ) , Tokyo-based EIE is being rescued by five large Japanese banks . |
| 4 | Eventually Gouzenko ran up debts of $153,000 which were partly settled by the sale of his book and film rights . |
| 5 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
| 6 | One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers . |
| 7 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 8 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 9 | There is nothing more annoying than unintentionally digging up groups of bulbs when they are dormant . |
| 10 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 11 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 12 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 13 | Baghdad declared that its forces were mopping up west of Fish Lake , having ‘ purged ’ the lake of the first and second waves of Iranians to cross . |
| 14 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 15 | It also declared its own political position in a thirty-nine page charter which stated : ‘ Initiatives , peace proposals and international conferences to solve the Palestine problem run counter to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement , since giving up part of Palestine is like giving up part of our religion . ’ |
| 16 | Research was then produced by Jeff Woods from the Institute of Food Research which backed up part of Sam Weller 's argument . |
| 17 | 16.30 : Write up part of diary . |
| 18 | Readers were also still snapping up copies of Thursday 's paper after we rushed out 403,000 extra to meet the overwhelming demand . |
| 19 | ‘ We went into this basement and smashed up loads of glasses , tables , chairs — anything that was in the room — and recorded it , ’ whispers bearded , bass-playing vocalist Neil . |
| 20 | You can use up loads of tapes . |
| 21 | You ask me she 's got make up loads of excuses . |
| 22 | Cos it 's pointless keep making up loads of paints when other people have already mixed the colour up . |
| 23 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
| 24 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 25 | The forensic team crawled all over it , picking up scraps of wood fragments , traces of Ephraim 's clothes on the floor , even some of his blood . |
| 26 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 27 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 28 | Follow up assessment of shunt patency has been undertaken using transabdominal ultrasound . |
| 29 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 30 | Much time is spent by teacher-librarians in secondary schools in giving pupils busy introductions to reference books and library catalogues , and we saw in Chapter 3 how tutor-librarians in technical institutions along Hertfordshire lines had built up programmes of instruction in all aspects of information-seeking . |