Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Res. on the clifftop that joins Thurso to Scrabster are not interested in the loads of driftwood washed up below . |
| 2 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 3 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 4 | Thus the EC remains highly sensitive to the origins of garments made up within African countries when the woven fabric is imported from elsewhere , and may reject such imports on the grounds that they are not wholly manufactured within the exporting country . |
| 5 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 6 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 7 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |
| 8 | Thus Andrew Sutton can comment that conductive education can produce results ‘ which seem quite beyond the expectations of children growing up with cerebral palsy and spina bifida elsewhere ’ . |
| 9 | To meet the needs of pupils growing up in such an environment , RE must not assume any religious faith — it has to start much further back with questions of why there is such a phenomenon as religion . |
| 10 | In D & M Trailers ( Halifax ) Ltd. v. Stirling ( 1978 C.A. ) an extensive exemption clause was included in the conditions of sale posted up around an auction room . |
| 11 | The providers of training ended up playing the government 's games and giving it credibility when it was in reality doing nothing in a serious situation . |
| 12 | The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks . |
| 13 | As well as sending the hotel an updated booking position each month , Saga sent a final rooming list four weeks before your departure , confirming the names of clients taking up their allocation of rooms at the hotel . |
| 14 | I can not speak for others , such as those at the Survey of English Usage , who are doubtless still exploring the motorways of data opened up through this technique . |
| 15 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 16 | To the airmen themselves , unable to hear the monstrous fracas , and detachedly observing the tiny sparks like flashes of a mirror and the puffs of smoke bubbling up below them , it was impossible to grasp what a sum of human suffering all that represented . |
| 17 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 18 | At each such decision point only the highest scoring path need be retained since what follows has no influence on the scores of paths leading up to A. |
| 19 | Most animals are bi-laterally symmetrical and their shape is too balanced to match with the irregularities of backgrounds made up of plants , rocks and earth . |
| 20 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 21 | The chances of Eubank ending up a punch-drunk boxing casualty are remote , and , likewise , he 's sparing in the abuse of his victims . |
| 22 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 23 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |