Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases long-term relationships grow up between casual workers and particular organizations In a few cases , Particularly In the banqueting establishments of a few large London hotels , where there is at least one " event " on most days of the week and most weeks of the year , there are some casuals who work effectively full-time for the organization concerned . |
| 2 | In the same piece of country , for example , we read of ‘ the wood way ’ in Saxon charters : these are the lanes that grew up between certain villages and the distant woods in which they had rights or pickings . |
| 3 | I quoted reports of the quick friendships which were springing up between Burmese villagers and the BOR , and included the following paragraphs : |
| 4 | A steep path , leading away from the river , wound up between low , stark trees . |
| 5 | Thus , the lack of rules about case allocation and re-allocation procedures , and a consequent separatism which has grown up between social worker and nurse caseloads , mean that team members work in a similar way to each other , but in parallel . |
| 6 | She picked the onions up between cupped hands and dropped them into the frying pan on the cooker . |
| 7 | Take any one of these four ingredients away and you will be much less likely to find a close corporatist tie up between particular interests and the state in pursuit of increased state intervention . |
| 8 | A network of relationships were gradually built up between different sites and finds until a sequence of events became clear . |
| 9 | ( This also gives the texts of the statutes , but they are often broken up between different titles in rather an inconvenient way , which is one of the reasons why the text in Statutes in Force is preferable . ) |
| 10 | The way in which Scotland lobbies for ’ the Scottish interest ’ and internally how the Scottish cake is split up between different partners are to be examined . |
| 11 | An invisible barrier put up between different departments in a financial organisation , preventing them from discussing matters which could give rise to a conflict of interest . |
| 12 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 13 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 14 | The old man blinks up through milky , uncomprehending eyes as the father , leaning over the table on knuckled hands , spits out his loathing in a voice too low to be overheard . |
| 15 | In the old days , before the Leader , thought Davide , the law swelled up through chronic feuding and the only respite came in the prelude to the great feast days , when families had no more money to pay lawyers ' services because the priests were taking it instead . |
| 16 | As I have indicated , the requirements for competition are slightly different , but we can use the fitness built up through normal training to provide a platform upon which to establish more specialised requirements . |
| 17 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 18 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 19 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 20 | The ‘ Delirium mix ’ is as much as could be expected — but not at all disappointing — with the original ingredients rinsed out through stringy synths and a shipment of cosmic awareness ( loads of that in our house ) whilst the ‘ In Dub Mix ’ works up through minimal effects before an unexpected dub bassline rumbles in and you realise you 're travelling at half-speed . |
| 21 | I have often reflected that if the founders , Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst , had behaved like any other rural landowners , living it up through judicious stock-market investments , no one would have raised an eyebrow . |
| 22 | Balcon moved , with several of the scriptwriters and directors he had brought up through Gaumont-British , to the American company , MGM . |
| 23 | This is not the keeping of the letter by escaping through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry . |
| 24 | The main job of the agent would be to assist the band in moving up through various grades of gig . |
| 25 | ‘ I had a relationship and it blew up through various circumstances . |
| 26 | I explained about doing tests under the line of the frame , about beginning with spit on a tiny swab and working your way up through various solvents , about finding the right solvent for the glaze . |
| 27 | In any of these the life of the town could be built up through various activities including role-play , mime , map making , art work . |
| 28 | he 's worked he 's way up through various branches of the law , he he 's practically certain to being a Q C and then a recorder , you know |
| 29 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 30 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |