Example sentences of "up [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she again took up Between in 1967 she decided to change the gender of the main character from male to female and ‘ it suddenly worked ’ ( 1990c:32 ) . |
| 2 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 3 | The 16 patients who did not identify foods as causing symptoms have been followed up for between nine and 46 months . |
| 4 | One group of investigators have argued that the inclusion of asymptomatic recurrences in the analysis of ulcer relapse trials should be discouraged , because these silent ulcers are clinically irrelevant ; however , such optimism ( based on findings made in a small group of patients with asymptomatic ulceration followed up for between 1 and 13 months ) is probably misguided , because one third of DU patients presenting with perforation and up to 60% admitted with haematemesis/or melaena , or both do not give a history of previous ulcer pain . |
| 5 | The number of statistical staff at the 650 was indeed cut by about a third , but as the Pickford report points out , this was made up for by greater use of computers . |
| 6 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 7 | The guards were ill-trained and fearful , with little combat experience , while what the rebels lacked in training and tactics was more than made up for in sheer ferocity and homicidal bloodlust . |
| 8 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 9 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 10 | It should be added that what the author lacks in scholarly rigour ( there are no footnotes and the index is skeletal ) he makes up for in discursive readability and enthusiasm . |
| 11 | WHAT T&S Stores lacks in glamour , it makes up for in low-ticket reliability . |
| 12 | They are made up of between six and 12 Higher National Unit credits . |
| 13 | So Freud has to explain this weakness of Wilson , in the face of erm , these much more dominant aggressive men he was up against in these very hard er hitting negotiations , about what to do about the world after , after World War One . |
| 14 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |
| 15 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 16 | Who did Elton John team up with for last year 's chart smash Do n't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ? |
| 17 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | LWT 's managers will end up with between 5 and 15 per cent of the new company depending on the performance in the interim , for which they will pay £3m — £700,000 in cash and £2.3m in forgone share options . |
| 19 | It is structured so that LWT 's managers will end up with between 5 per cent and 15 per cent of the new company , depending on how well LWT performs in the meantime , which they will pay for in 1993-94 at today 's prices . |
| 20 | I mean , we we get bound up with with all sorts of domestic things , and will , I expect , later today . |
| 21 | What must we have started off with here to finish up with with that ? |
| 22 | You 'd practically have to run to keep up with with some of them . |
| 23 | You can also walk round the lake , or , more ambitiously , follow for a stretch up to the even higher Lacs d'Ayous , the red and white marked stones of the GR10 , the magnificent high path that leads from one end of the Pyrenees to the other and which you keep meeting up with at these altitudes . |
| 24 | do n't like that fed up with up that ! |
| 25 | Let's see how many so whats you can come up with after this . |
| 26 | you end up with like all these books and they 've got a different , different sort of er perspective on it and they 've got |
| 27 | in the daytime I 'm going home I 'm not putting up with like that ! |
| 28 | We ended up with plus eight for the positive cases where they 're positively correlated , we ended up with minus nine for the negative cases . |
| 29 | If the government had executed the plans it came up with in 1856 , peasants would have been justified in thinking that the devil of serfdom was preferable to the deep blue sea of reform . |
| 30 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |