Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Professor Fred Stone of Glasgow University called for a countrywide network of agencies made up from the police , social workers , teachers and other agencies to spot potential troublesome children . |
| 32 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 33 | The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April . |
| 34 | An acrimonious argument and clash of personalities flared up between the BMC and MLTB , which ended up in a London arbitration court that suggested a formula for reconciliation , Lord Hunt reported on the way forward : a key element being that the BMC should retain and foster its influence and activity in the training sphere . |
| 35 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 36 | This is a lovely sheet of water amongst trees , having as a powerful background the massive build-up of ridges leading up to the summit of Mam Sodhail , a major Munro 3862 feet high . |
| 37 | Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh . |
| 38 | It 's a fascinating project , because you 've also got all sorts of memorabilia lined up in the library . |
| 39 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 40 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson 's galaxy of stars square up to the ‘ Milky ’ way tonight with their season threatening to disintegrate inside six days . |
| 41 | These stamina exercises are supplemented by a programme of exercises set up by the instructor in the dojang . |
| 42 | But they were among dozens of motorists caught up in the smash on the southbound carriageway of the A1 near Doncaster on Saturday . |
| 43 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 44 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 45 | To my astonishment a forest of hands shot up around the class . |
| 46 | For many years to come there will be generations of children growing up without the chance of an education so we have yet another challenge , that of the invisible children . |
| 47 | Behind the savage and futile blood-letting lies unimaginable suffering — families robbed of their loved ones , more than 33,000 injured and maimed and a generation of children brought up in the menacing shadow of the bomb and the bullet . |
| 48 | When you weigh it up , would any amount of perks make up for the fact that joining this particular firm involves waking up next to the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York ? |
| 49 | Capped employees include those who are members of schemes set up after the 1989 Budget or who joined any final salary scheme after 1 June 1989 . |
| 50 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 51 | Collective deliberation on the basis of choices served up by the official machine go against Mrs Thatcher 's personal grain . |
| 52 | It would involve the abandonment of rigid conceptualism : the rejection , in other words , of a formal mechanical set of criteria adding up to the concept of adultery which allows hard problems to be solved with apparent ease by simply referring to a formula without examining the deeper issues of justice involved in the case . |
| 53 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 54 | But the prosecution 's description of events leading up to the fire was appalling in its sexist implications . |
| 55 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 56 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 57 | The case of the seven bishops was an important turning point in the development of events leading up to the Revolution , marking the defeat of James 's attempts to win Nonconformist support for his policies of toleration . |
| 58 | The police have staged a reconstruction of events leading up to the murder of parttime model Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common . |
| 59 | He was one of a number of witnesses who described their view of events leading up to the crash in Swindon last year . |
| 60 | Most of the RCM internees were packed off to the Isle of Man , a late addition to the list of camps drawn up by the War Office in 1939 . |