Example sentences of "up [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony was that many would soon end up owner-occupied thanks to a central part of Thatcherism — the right to buy scheme . |
| 2 | Sending up eternal thanks to whatever deity happened to be in residence , she turned into the lane , which probably in sunlight , or at least daylight , was pretty , but which in the car 's headlights looked waterlogged , thankfully parked , stretched her cramped muscles , dragged on her hat , and got out . |
| 3 | He has played a leading part in developing the Viet Nam business for the bast six years , chalking up 32 visits to the country before his permanent posting . |
| 4 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 5 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 6 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 7 | For those with energy to spare , another path runs up Rocky Valley to the Bronze Age labyrinth — its rock carvings are 3,500 years old . |
| 8 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 9 | But it does suggest that racism is too deeply embedded in the whole experience of growing up working class to be the sole responsibility of skins . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if ‘ rent reserved ’ has a more specific and discriminatory meaning it is not a phrase which instantly yields up that meaning to a Scots lawyer , untrained in the techniques of English conveyancing . |
| 11 | The analysis of the last section has shown that synonyms will slow up direct access to records on average . |
| 12 | Only occasionally will a movement throw up interesting solutions to everyday design . |
| 13 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 14 | From your response last year to the Questionnaire , clearly you felt that the Medau Society should begin putting up tougher resistance to commercial pressure and taking more positive approaches to publicity , advertising and the media . |
| 15 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 16 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 17 | Follow a track and turn right up another drive to the eastern side of the dam . |
| 18 | Similar customs to this , all designed to hold up social miscreants to public ridicule , can be found in many different sorts of small-scale societies . |
| 19 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 20 | Sutton was later going to have to cope with marrying up this formula to the new direct-entry computer system , which was being sorted out by systems editor Eugenie Verney , a sub-editor made redundant from the Daily Express in Manchester , who had previously worked on the Guardian . |
| 21 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 22 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 23 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 24 | Woke up this morning to Familiar Pain |
| 25 | Immediately after her portrait is completed Nicholas woos her in a typically crude , fabliau manner , presented by the narrator in appropriately marked , fabliau language : Alison puts up some resistance to this rude assault ( 3282 – 7 ) but as Nicholas persists , crying mercy and speaking fair , she seems in the end to be a relatively easy conquest for him ( 3288 – 93 ) . |
| 26 | See how we dressed up some visitors to Clothes Show Live |
| 27 | North Sioux City , South Dakota-based Gateway 2000 Inc reports net sales the year to January 31 were $1,100m , up about 76% on the 1991 figure ; pre-tax profit was up some 77% to $106m , the company said , adding that it expanded its workforce 43% to 1,847 in 1992 and intends to hire more people and to expand its product line and geographic reach . |
| 28 | With Marion 's baby due next month and my being absent on leave , I would n't put it past the ‘ high heid yins ’ to cook up some deal to my disadvantage . ’ |
| 29 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 30 | Doe 's forces put up stiffer resistance to the rebel groupings than was expected , and were able to hold the area of Monrovia around the heavily fortified executive mansion . |