Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 2 | Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil . |
| 3 | One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 . |
| 4 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 5 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 6 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 7 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 8 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 9 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 10 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 11 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 12 | Both offer a choice of direct equity investment and unit trust investment up to the maximum £2,400 . |
| 13 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 14 | This constant cycle of warfare , involving fleets as mighty as the Spanish Armada , had kept Bouton in isolation up to the present day . |
| 15 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 16 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 17 | After the break up of the famous ‘ Emanuel ’ partnership and subsequent liquidation of the company , Alison-Jayne decided to return home and use her knowledge and skills to set up her own couture bridal and evening wear business in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | As 1993 approaches we are conscious that factors like the expansion of the European Community , the emergence of the Eastern European democracies and the break up of the Soviet Union , not to mention events nearer home , will present us with new challenges and opportunities . |
| 19 | A lot has happened since then and the eyes of the world have been diverted elsewhere to the Gulf , the Kurds , the break up of the Soviet union . |
| 20 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 21 | John Marchbanks of the NUR , representing an active Right Wing minority in the Party leadership , saw the campaign as an attempt at " engineering the break up of the Labour Party , and paving the way to the creation of a new party , in which Liberals and progressives of all political shades will be enrolled " . |
| 22 | The incisors are lost first , with the break up of the anterior part of the premaxilla , and then the molars are lost as the alveolar border becomes damaged . |
| 23 | During a brief visit on Oct. 12 , 1989 , as part of a tour of Latin America , President François Mitterrand of France stated that the break up of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA — see above ) " seemed to confirm Colombia 's isolation in its fight against drug trafficking " . |
| 24 | The brains of its victims are found to contain areas in which the death of nerve cells is accompanied by demyelination ( the break up of the fatty sheath surrounding nerve fibres , which is essential to their correct functioning ) . |
| 25 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 ) observe , the break up of the post-war consensus , coupled with the passing of the earlier period of growth and the increased politicization of local government , has made the officer 's professional stance increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 26 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 27 | Hence Lawson also chaired an ad hoc group of Ministers which led to the setting up of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 28 | The setting up of the Serious Fraud Office was an important development , as were the increased powers of the Department of Trade and Industry under the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 29 | An early example of the recognition of the residual problem was afforded by the setting up of the Unhealthy Areas Committee by Addison in 1919 . |
| 30 | The setting up of the Working Party on Civil Procedures ( The Heilbron Committee ) was an important development during the year . |