Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 2 | One firm has come up with a number of ways to find letterbombs , before they find their target . |
| 3 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 4 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 5 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 6 | Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary . |
| 7 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 9 | Therefore it seems to me that the communist party really has to disappear , it 's a good thing that it 's own general secretary has disbanded it , I anticipate that it will break up into a number of political parties , perhaps one kind of social democratic party on the left and another , if you like a kind of Russian unionist party , on the right , erm , but as the communist party it 's simply incompatible with the emergence of democracy in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 11 | Have you phoned up for the number ? |
| 12 | Cassidy came up with a number of objections to the granting of a faculty . |
| 13 | we came up with a number of figures . |
| 14 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 15 | He , he simply came up with the number of cars . |
| 16 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 17 | Motivation is an ‘ event ’ in itself — motivation is made up of a number of factors of which the most important are the perceived value of the outcome to the individual and the correlation between that outcome and the effort necessary to achieve it . |
| 18 | Multi- stage sampling can be used when the population is made up of a number of sub-units . |
| 19 | Another type of date code is made up of a number and a row of dots , eg |
| 20 | Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) . |
| 21 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 22 | Each song consists of a constant number of these themes , each theme being made up of a number of phrases . |
| 23 | Business Direct is made up of a number of different services , each designed to smooth your way throughout the world . |
| 24 | According to the poster , the unit was made up of a number of different combat companies , each fulfilling a specialist role , ranging from amphibious and mountain warfare to sabotage . |
| 25 | And protein is made up of a number of what , can you remember ? |
| 26 | 3 Where the petition is based on a statutory demand , only the debt claimed in the demand may be included in the petition , except that interest or other charges which have accrued since the date of the demand to the date of the petition may be added … 4 When completing para 2 of the petition , attention is drawn to r 6.8(I) ( a ) to ( c ) , particularly where the " aggregate sum " is made up of a number of debts . |
| 27 | Since every organization is made up of a number of different groups of employees , the question of collaboration between groups is vital for obtaining an overall balance in the social system . |
| 28 | According to the ideas outlined in Chapter 6 , the language processing system is made up of a number of information-processing modules , each responsible for a specific information-processing task ( such as recognising letters , for example , or producing spoken words ) . |
| 29 | Similarly , a motor car is a system which takes the driver and passengers from point A to point B. It is also made up of a number of sub-systems — the braking system , the heating system , the gearing system and so on . |
| 30 | With these ideas , in concrete mathematical form , it was relatively straightforward to calculate the allowed orbits in more complicated atoms and even in molecules , which are made up of a number of atoms held together by electrons in orbits that go round more than one nucleus . |