Example sentences of "up in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It caused a little social outing in my family , " said a pitman 's daughter who grew up in the South Yorkshire pit village where her father worked . |
| 2 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 3 | COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . |
| 4 | Because import duty ( 35 per cent on ornamented goods ) and freight charges , had from the start pushed prices up in the US , Peter now decided to make a virtue of necessity and deliberately aimed for an exclusive designer image with corresponding price tag . |
| 5 | Japanese companies such as Nissan , setting up in the UK , have been startled to discover that production employees sometimes need tuition in basic mathematics . |
| 6 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 7 | CUSSONS toiletries group Paterson Zochonis reported yesterday that sales of the Imperial Leather brand held up in the UK despite the recession , but the group 's products saw strongest growth overseas . |
| 8 | Prior to this it is ensuring its distribution and support is beefed up in the UK and Germany by signing a sole distribution deal with Marlow , Buckinghamshire-based Instrumatic UK Ltd . |
| 9 | Both aircraft head-to-head at Farnborough were built in 1944 at the Oklahoma City plant , but beyond that they went very separate ways until meeting up in the UK in September , both toting turboprops . |
| 10 | in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK . |
| 11 | Three main developments should be noted : ( 1 ) the opening up overseas of branch offices of English or Welsh partnerships ; ( 2 ) the creation of new partnerships overseas carrying on business in the English firm-name and involving some , or all , of the English partners together with foreign lawyers ( the counterpart of the multi-national practices which will shortly be set up in the UK ) ; ( 3 ) associations between English and foreign ( typically from the USA ) firms to carry on business together in a third country or as a regional or transnational grouping . |
| 12 | US dollars build up in the UK bank 's NOSTRO account when US importers pay UK exporters in US$ ( see next example ) or when the UK bank buys in US$ in the foreign exchange market . |
| 13 | The seven pound penalty he picks up in the Bagthorpe Handicap at Nottingham is negated by his apprentice jockey 's claim and he should not be missed . |
| 14 | Many of the crimes with which others caught up in the Guinness affair are charged are not covered by the extradition treaty with the US . |
| 15 | Theft is covered by the treaty but other offences which crop up in the Guinness case , such as common law conspiracy to rig the market and breaches of the Companies Act , do not . |
| 16 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 17 | Our London operation , set up in the West End , moved to City Road earlier this year . |
| 18 | Pre-race favourite Mick Francis , of Forres , who was runner up in the AAA 24 hour race in October , had to retired after covering 37 5 miles in five hours , leaving Paul Bream at the front . |
| 19 | At 2.45pm on Sunday , November 1990 , the body of an Englishman was found in a small gorge high up in the Sierra de Gredos mountains of central Spain . |
| 20 | ‘ What about the one up in the Highlands , Piper ? |
| 21 | Now that is a word you seldom come across in England , but away up in the Highlands and Islands being " fey " means that you have a certain sixth sense — you are the seventh son of a seventh son , or whatever the drama is on that score . |
| 22 | Temporary facilities have been set up in the Union Street car park because the depot was reduced to a heap of rubble in Sunday evening 's IRA bomb . |
| 23 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 24 | His appeal came as another father caught up in the Warrington bomb tragedy said he felt the whole country was urging his son , the critically injured 12-year-old Timothy Parry , to survive . |
| 25 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 26 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 27 | Prices like that up in the Ipswich area . |
| 28 | But as far as the security services are concerned , the Kremlin is still plotting to undermine world capitalism and J. Edgar Hoover is still holed up in the FBI powder room . |
| 29 | They had been set up in the Heumensoord Camp for several days , but today an air of excitement pervaded the squadron . |
| 30 | Their beautiful home , hidden way up in the California hills , is divided into three parts , one for each member of the group . |