Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness . |
| 32 | Environmentalists reacted with caution to the UK government 's White Paper on the future of the coal industry , drawn up in response to the widespread protests over the announcement of pit closures in October [ see ED 64 ] . |
| 33 | The insurance giants were being snapped up in response to the strong turnround in their fortunes . |
| 34 | Like most voluntary sector services , those for the black community have sprung up in response to local needs . |
| 35 | On Wednesday , facing demands for more detail , Mr Lamont 's deputy , Michael Portillo , and the Treasury said that benefits would only go up in proportion to the RPI . |
| 36 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 37 | Its role was to boost tourism in the region , but it ended up in debt to just those it was supposed to help . |
| 38 | But the world may end up with both projects , a waste of resources that will stunt other science — and might well hold back particle physics , as generations of physicists find themselves growing up in thrall to the vast machines , with no alternative experiments to pursue . |
| 39 | These models from the ‘ me ’ generation are frequently set up in opposition to the ‘ they ’ models of the parents ' generation . |
| 40 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 41 | Boys sitting on the right-hand side of the bus , for example , would set up in opposition to the boys on the left in order to have someone to mock and to shout joking imprecations at . |
| 42 | Equally , there would be nothing to prevent private social work companies setting up in opposition to local authority and voluntary agency workers ; private training companies are already emerging . |
| 43 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 44 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 45 | The increased final dividend of 2.75p takes the total to 3.75p , from 3.5p , covered by earnings up in line to 9p . |
| 46 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 47 | Crossing over to the tree , she began to climb up , drawing herself up from branch to branch wherever she could find foothold or handhold . |
| 48 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 49 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 50 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 51 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 52 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 53 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 54 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 55 | He must have made the whole thing up from start to finish . |
| 56 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 57 | It leads straight up from hell to that turret . |
| 58 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 59 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 60 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |