Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles . |
| 2 | the road leads on up through layers of eucalyptus trees into the pine forest to Poiso , a major road junction with a good restaurant . |
| 3 | After a while he rolled from her and lay there , staring up through layers of darkness at the dim , coiled shape of dragons in the ceiling mosaic , thinking of the boy . |
| 4 | The shortfall will be made up through sales of short-term paper — namely , bills — which have a maturity of up to one year , and through issuing more two- and three-year notes . |
| 5 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 6 | The follow up for morbidity of gastric cancer shows increased risks in the years after starting cimetidine treatment . |
| 7 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 8 | Nowadays when his eyes light up for love of me , they are somehow clearer and brighter than they used to be ; the lighting up is the more flattering . |
| 9 | Should the person in charge of the chart see any item that was likely to fall behind , he pinned a flag at this particular point , and if the article was likely to be held up for want of raw material a blue flag was pinned up ; but if this delay was due to one or other of the works departments getting behind with the manufacture , a red flag with a numeral upon it was used , which indicated the shop or department . |
| 10 | You ca n't do wi' your milk drying up for want of nourishment . ’ |
| 11 | If these responsibilities be shirked , valuable and important work will either be held up for want of teachers or fall into the hands of those ill qualified to deal with it … |
| 12 | Actor lined up for part of Maxwell |
| 13 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 14 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 15 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 16 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 17 | If you work in a university , polytechnic , college or school anywhere in the world and your work is held up for lack of funding , the Research Fund may be able to help you . |
| 18 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 19 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 20 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 21 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 22 | The workers , members of the International Association of Machinists , are taking advantage of the boom to try to make up for years of contract concessions and stagnant income . |
| 23 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 24 | But most big stores admit they dare n't put prices up for fear of losing the few customers they have . |
| 25 | With her long cotton dress tucked up for ease of movement , Emily looked neat and easy beside the rangy , untidy figure of the young magician . |
| 26 | The trustees administering the appeal fund set up for victims of the bombings have now approved the design of a memorial to be placed in Bridge Street at the scene of the atrocity . |
| 27 | No no , amenity-wise , you 're okay , but I mean amenities does n't make up for sort of living standards you 've got , does it ? |
| 28 | Yeah and I suppose it 's always going to be up for sort of negotiation , I mean I |
| 29 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 30 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |