Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 32 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 33 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 34 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 35 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 36 | Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost . |
| 37 | There is no need to walk up to the summit of Cairn Gorm underneath the chairlift , since there is a route that runs west from the car park , and takes you up on to the Fiacaill ridge , a world away from the frightful clanking kingdom of the ski-tows . |
| 38 | I am sitting in my office after the Assessment Group meeting , looking at a draft position paper on the assessment of the assessment process itself that David Poole , in the European Secretariat , wants the Group to put up to the Secretary of the Cabinet . |
| 39 | Quite a job to keep up with the crane . |
| 40 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 41 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 42 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 43 | Without Mr Gorbachev as party boss , a rapid realignment of forces would take place , making it possible for a coalition-for-democracy to line up against the coalition-for-clampdown . |
| 44 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 45 | Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal . |
| 46 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 47 | But first we called at Mr Macauley 's sweet shop to stock up for the frequent film changes . |
| 48 | If it is n't the oh , so charming Sally-Anne — missing from our midst to turn up in the East End — and in fancy dress , too ! ’ |
| 49 | In this case , it has been fitted to an HMV Gramophone ; it controls the rotational speed of the disc so it runs slowly when the soundbox is at the outside edge , and allows the record to speed up towards the inner radius . |
| 50 | Failure to get up into the full climb is the usual cause of serious overspeeding during the first third of the launch . |
| 51 | You 'll need plenty of courage to face up to the fact that trouble is about to strike and then to deter whoever is behind it . |
| 52 | The man with the courage to face up to the issue was Heisenberg . |
| 53 | It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm . |
| 54 | WAR CLOUDS OVER EUROPE read the banner headlines at the opening of Reed 's earlier film , Bank Holiday ( 1938 ) , a picture whose setting suggests escapism but whose narrative argues for the need to face up to the dark side of life in order to find meaningful happiness . |
| 55 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |
| 56 | Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place . |
| 57 | Like spinning tops we dash from from one emergency to another , always citing them as an excuse for our unfailing refusal to face up to the global urgency staring at us |
| 58 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 59 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 60 | The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part . |