Example sentences of "up from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can shoot the material in any order , the edited movie can be built up from the best parts of the recording , and the overall shape of the movie can be finally determined when the material to be retained is known . |
| 2 | Modern skilifts run up from the alpine terrace to the Fronalpstock . |
| 3 | This included a scheme for a new 150,000-mile National Highway System made up from the existing inter-state system and other major roads . |
| 4 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 7 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Along the western edge of the valley were tumbling glaciers and high rock ramparts sweeping up from the great moraines and scree slopes to culminate in lofty , snowcapped summits . |
| 11 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 14 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 15 | And when , as often happened , the screen began to yellow and darken , the cry would go up from the front rows : ‘ Purra nother bob in Len ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Six up from the first leg … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 26 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 27 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 28 | IBM Deutschland GmbH greeted Gerstner 's appointment by announcing that it would cut nearly 4,000 jobs this year , up from the 3,000 planned : ‘ We need a cost efficient structure as soon as possible , ’ chief executive Bernhard Dorn said . |
| 29 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 30 | Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening . |