Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 2 | They can obtain Orders from the Secretary of State ( DoE or Welsh Office ) to prevent any agricultural , or forestry , land use change for up to a year . |
| 3 | Detectives also found bales of dried herbal cannabis from a previous crop and believe the isolated spot had been used to produce the drug for up to a decade . |
| 4 | They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis . |
| 5 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 6 | The parents then feed the chick for up to a year . |
| 7 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 8 | You can keep the hired car for up to a fortnight . |
| 9 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 10 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |
| 11 | Conference Room 1 is very useful for larger meetings , but there is scope for the use of a smaller room for groups of up to a dozen staff and/or external users . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that um y'know kind of up to a certain age involving kids in sexual relations with adults is abusive because of the discrepancy in power , because of the discrepancy in physical size , because of a whole range of social discrepancies . |
| 13 | But already they carry a price tag of up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 14 | The punishments included forfeiture of remission , single cell confinements , restrictions upon access to the canteen and , more controversially , the stopping of letters and visits for up to a month . |
| 15 | The builder 's surveyor will either check the information supplied by the sub-contractor or measure the work carried out during the payment period , usually weekly , but occasionally for longer periods of up to a month . |
| 16 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 17 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 18 | The Owens have been told by surveyors that the road works could devalue their home by up to a hundred and fifty thousand pounds , and they think the department of Transport should listen to their arguments . |
| 19 | The Orc and Goblin army may include a proportion of allies worth up to a quarter of its total points value . |
| 20 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 21 | Railcard holders will be able to get further reductions of up to a third : children pay a flat fare of £1 single . |
| 22 | Between 1969 and 1973 it was to cost approximately £100 million , and involve a design team of up to a hundred people known as the New Range Planning Organisation ( NPRO ) . |
| 23 | I never seemed to be sort of up to the other scholars at all . |
| 24 | I 'm wondering whether it was erm one ti er we , we walked up a hill and the the erm sculpture was sort of up on a hill . |
| 25 | I , I think this business of up to the fourteenth is premiums due up to the fourteenth . |
| 26 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 27 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 28 | They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites . |
| 29 | Waste compactors offer a new concept in efficient and cost-effective waste disposal by safely and hygienically reducing waste to up to a quarter of its original size . |
| 30 | The company therefore said that salesmen must agree to a new restrictive covenant which barred them from soliciting customers for up to a year after leaving . |