Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Lou ca n't you hang your things up properly in that changing room ? |
| 2 | The arrangement of the Local Management of Schools is one of the best initiatives of the Conservative Government and it has freed schools from the heavy-handed control of Local Government , and in particular that of Labour controlled Authorities because it 's a step into the unknown for some , with obviously some doubt at first , and many Labour Groups fed on those doubts with lies and threats but nevertheless it was taken up wholeheartedly by many schools . |
| 3 | After 1750 domestic exports were made up predominantly of manufactured goods . |
| 4 | The porosity of these rocks is made up predominantly of intercrystalline voids ( Fig. 22c ) formed by the selective corrosion and removal of dolomite crystals and the observed porosities and permeabilities typically range from 10–30% and 1–100 mD , respectively ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 5 | Diatoms calcium hydrogen carbonate skeletal material these things are probably ending up predominantly as deep sea sediments pelagic sediments , yeah , remember ? |
| 6 | Sections comprise approximately twenty policemen and women , made up mostly of regular constables , but each has attached to it a number of full-time reservists . |
| 7 | Hydrolipidic film A protective natural emulsion on the skin surface made up mostly of natural oil and water . |
| 8 | If you have an organisation that is made up mostly of these two , they 're very good at planning and having ideas ; they have wonderful intellectual and logical discussions . |
| 9 | This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks . |
| 10 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 11 | The Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Derby hero loomed up menacingly behind Manx Treasure at the third bend . |
| 12 | After the behaviour yesterday , someone claiming to be spokesman for the Tory group on the environment backed up vocally by these minions , I said to my group today , no more Mr nice guy . |
| 13 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 14 | Those over forty should build up slowly over several months before arriving at a suggested target of half an hour three times a week of vigorous exercise , which can include dancing , squash , tennis , running , or energetic swimming . |
| 15 | If you get out of position and if you find yourself too low , move up slowly in small steps , checking the movement every few feet . |
| 16 | By building the picture up slowly in this way , the patient is not suddenly confronted with demands for details before he has settled comfortably into the personality and environment of the person he once was . |
| 17 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 18 | But he clammed up right after that . |
| 19 | And erm then the next day they came over and David was laughing , he said , do you , do you know the alley way down between he said , well it blew it her up right against that bloody wall he said ! |
| 20 | With no image of hunting and killing in her ‘ mind ’ , with no hunger driving her , she does not express such intentions in her actions and demeanour — and the deer pick it up instinctively at both subtle or vibrational as well as gross physically observable levels . |
| 21 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |
| 22 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 23 | It begins with a look at the various types of looms and how to set them up together with full details on how to operate each type , with hints and tips on weaving procedures . |
| 24 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 25 | It is a complex carbohydrate and consists of starches and fibre bound up together in such things as bread , potatoes , fruit , vegetables , nuts and pulses . |
| 26 | In 1963 the personal spending of the elderly amounted to 9 per cent of GNP ; it was still at this level by the late 1970s and was up only to 10.8 per cent by 1983 . |
| 27 | They flourished by eating the haplochromines — which now make up only about one per cent of the catch . |
| 28 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Compute performance is increasing by 1.7 times every year , while bus bandwidth is going up only by 1.3 times . |
| 30 | THE POUND is under pressure , its value propped up only by massive Government borrowing of more than 7 billion . |