Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 2 | Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ? |
| 3 | At the end of the day , how a member state organises itself is entirely up to the member state itself . |
| 4 | So that 's , entirely up to the pair of you . |
| 5 | Where the tail goes from there is entirely up to the driver . |
| 6 | If only one partner is Catholic , permission to marry in a non-Catholic church may be given but is entirely up to the discretion of the priest . |
| 7 | Can I make a suggestion then that on this we change the suggested If you just put down that the enquiry form is farmed by the researchers full stop , and leave any related documents entirely up to the discretion of each and |
| 8 | He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil . |
| 9 | of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly |
| 10 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 11 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 12 | She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground . |
| 13 | It may be noticed too that our analysis rather simplified the relation between awareness and spontaneity , taking account of the awareness only up to the rousing of the impulse . |
| 14 | He put it best , perhaps , when he said that the writer must wade into life as into the sea , but only up to the navel . |
| 15 | Though Halsey 's figures reach only up to the mid-1960s , other data show that the expansion of universities from the late 1960s onwards has not benefited the working class as much as the professional classes . |
| 16 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | the person named can then write in the figures , but only up to the amount stated . |
| 18 | However , it required this to be done only up to the amount of the buyer 's outstanding indebtedness to the seller . |
| 19 | Such an adult sex-ratio buffer as proposed here is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle for sex ratio , which would operate only up to the end of parental care . |
| 20 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 21 | Criticism and discussion must , therefore , be solicited and encouraged , but never for its own sake , and only up to the point that decision is taken . |
| 22 | But you paint only up to the point on which your own marginal benefit equals the marginal cost of the paint you buy and the time you spend . |
| 23 | He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill . |
| 24 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | Clipboard in hand , she strode purposefully up to the doors . |
| 26 | A wide ice slope led gently up to the pass . |
| 27 | It 's obviously up to the plaintiff to make the running . ’ |
| 28 | Berwick was a slantwise town , sloping up northwards from the harbour area , its outer walls halfway up to the castle . |
| 29 | And he said well come on then we 're stuck halfway up on the kerb here . |
| 30 | Each triangular guyline is attached at two points halfway up on the pole sleeve 18in apart . |