Example sentences of "up from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earth is coming quietly and darkly up from a great depth , |
| 2 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 3 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 4 | Spain 's 35% growth has been fuelled by its catching up from a low base , government investment policies , especially in the workstation arena . |
| 5 | Peter woke up from a violent dream that was to change everything . |
| 6 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 7 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 8 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |
| 9 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 10 | Now she thought ‘ Mother ’ deliberately , summoning up from a deep centre the bossy voice which had haunted her and with it a sweet softness , older still and loving . |
| 11 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 12 | It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences . |
| 13 | Rose looked up from a Naseby-dominated desk as Mr Multhrop speedily opened the door and almost pushed the sergeant in . |
| 14 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 15 | He heats each portion in a bowl of hot water kept topped up from a boiling kettle before making the wax balls , the names tightly sealed inside . |
| 16 | They built up from a working |
| 17 | It garnered unequivocal critical praise , the vocal admiration of many American politicians and a thumbs up from a Californian judge , who recently sent a young black offender to see the film ( in lieu of a custodial sentence ) . |
| 18 | The claim is that these rules can be built up from a simple base . |
| 19 | Clear fresh water bubbled up from a pebble-filled pool , overhung by rocks . |
| 20 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 21 | For example , the genetic material is made up from a complex molecule known as DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) . |
| 22 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 23 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 24 | But there are two other prices where you can sell up from a full page and that 's that pre a premium slot like you see there and the chemist there will have paid twelve hundred pound . |
| 25 | Have you ever woken up from a full night 's sleep still exhausted ? |
| 26 | In 1963 Takayanagi proposed models for polymers containing separate phases and carried out experimental studies on composites made up from a hard polymer and a soft rubber . |
| 27 | Ford retained market leadership with its share up from a lowly 20 per cent last September to 25 per cent — a volume increase from 34,421 to 38,445 . |
| 28 | Bangor went two up from a short corner with J Clark firing in an unstoppable shot . |
| 29 | Users can scale the Boss system up from a single node to 456 nodes , to give 114.6GFlops performance . |
| 30 | Many people carry out interviews and write them up from a social point of view . |