Example sentences of "up [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 2 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 3 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 4 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
| 5 | Down below , a green slate floor butts up to and contrasts with the smooth screed concrete on either side . |
| 6 | We do not need a fund to get there but rather we need to face up to and deal with the systematic discrimination that women face . ’ |