Example sentences of "up from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complex sentence structures are mastered by building up from simple sentence structures , which have been drilled already in substitution and differential drills . |
| 2 | The colliding rhythms and whiplash emotion of ‘ The Thin Line ’ follow , before ‘ Jet City Woman ’ steps up from dubious vinyl to live excellence . |
| 3 | The colliding rhythms and whiplash emotion of ‘ The Thin Line ’ follow , before ‘ Jet City Woman ’ steps up from dubious vinyl to live excellence . |
| 4 | It is not going to be anyone high up from Grand Met . ’ |
| 5 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 6 | It was one step up from small talk ; it was aggrandisement . |
| 7 | The court will have regard to the general mercantile structure within which a relationship arises , a structure of relationship and expectation built up from accepted custom and methods of dealing . |
| 8 | And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover . |
| 9 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 10 | And he 'd er worked himself up from one lace machine until he 'd got twelve . |
| 11 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 12 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 13 | The moral of this passage is that in rejecting criticism you work up from gentle fun-poking and comment , through rebuke before calling your critic a damned liar . |
| 14 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 15 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 16 | You may be able give up gradually , or decide one day to remove everything connected with smoking from your house — and give up from that day on . |
| 17 | I 'd walk off to a respectful distance — I had no desire to listen to their conversation , there was nothing useful to pick up from that babble . |
| 18 | I just pulled it up from that bottom . |
| 19 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 20 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 21 | Thick metal cables curved up from that helmet into the ducted roof as though the man had sprouted banded antlers . |
| 22 | It is known as matrix modelling because it assumes that the price of a bond is made up from each component of relative value taken separately . |
| 23 | It was a momentary thought , quickly dispelled when Sara took Hartley in her arms ; but from it crystallized the firm decision that both Hartley and any other children they might have should be spared a city childhood , and be ‘ bred up from earliest infancy in the simplicity of peasants , their food , dress , and habits completely rustic ’ . |
| 24 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
| 25 | Losses are reduced by insulation and behaviour , but must ultimately be made up from metabolic energy sources , mostly by cellular oxidation of fuels derived from food . |
| 26 | Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists . |
| 27 | Cos I 've sometimes caught bus up from other end , if I 've gone our Neil 's or summat . |
| 28 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 29 | The armour is built up from woven fabric supplied by Courtaulds Aerospace Performance Fabrics at Littleborough and impregnated with resin by Courtaulds Aerospace Electrical Insulation , of Runcorn . |
| 30 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |