Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly enthroned Tsar Nicholas I moved troops up to the Turkish frontier and forced the sultan to sign the Convention of Akkerman ( October 1826 ) , by which the Turks agreed to implement the clauses of the Treaty of Bucharest which recognised the rights of the Romanians and Serbs . |
| 2 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 3 | Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders . |
| 4 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 5 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 6 | They can cash cheques up to a pre-arranged limit , free of charge , settle bills payable by bank giro credit , order foreign currency for school trips and holidays and pay money into their own accounts . |
| 7 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 8 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 9 | Another is to put prices up during a quiet period , then later offer what seem to be big discounts . |
| 10 | The directors are presently authorised to allot shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,668,095 and to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a rights issue and up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 , without applying statutory pre-emption rights . |
| 11 | Once consequence of the highly oscillatory single.step response is the existence of resonance effects at stepping rates up to the natural frequency of rotor oscillation . |
| 12 | Scattering particles of ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ amidst old chestnuts like ‘ Sheriff Fatman ’ , the duelling duo eventually ( w ) rap things up with a hysterical rendition of ‘ Down In The Tube Station At Midnight ’ ( ‘ Woah — oh-oh-oooh-oh ! ’ ) and a sombre , sneering slump through ‘ Another Brick In The Wall ’ . |
| 13 | Cats , on the other hand , can hear sounds up to an astonishing 10,000 cycles per second . |
| 14 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 15 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 16 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
| 17 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 18 | Is he aware that , in Renfrew district , the council estimates that , during the next five years , it will need £300 million to bring houses up to a tolerable level ? |
| 19 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 20 | The plunge in aluminium prices in January was contained by forecasts of a tight supply situation which pushed prices up to a 15-month high of $2,227.50 a tonne in September . |