Example sentences of "of [noun] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day .
2 And from the middle of this year onwards , both painters had adopted and accentuated Cézanne 's device of lifting the tops of objects up towards the picture plane .
3 Secondly , it is of course up to the individual credit granter to decide whether or not to enter into a transaction requested by an individual customer .
4 The revenue gained from this reform should be used so that contributions rise by single percentage points over bands of income up to the upper earnings limit .
5 Brilliant weather from the end of May through into June , particularly on the west coast , saw hordes of climbers up on the big mountain routes , particularly on Ben Nevis .
6 Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere .
7 There was the hum of cars up on the main road .
8 Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century .
9 A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers .
10 A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers .
11 Dating has obviously become extremely inaccurate by this level compared with the precision higher up the stratigraphical column , but presumed late Precambrian glacial deposits extend from the west of Ireland up through the Highlands of Scotland and then up through Norway to Varangerfjord near its northernmost tip .
12 They described it as Maiwa , " the wall at the side of the world , four moons " sail to the eastward … a land which stretches to the north and to the south without end … beyond the furthest eastward island it lies — a wall of mountains up against the sun " .
13 It consisted of a short platform , a tin shack , and a set of buffers up against the hedge which bordered the main road .
14 It was tempting to take one of the sacks of fuel up to the cottage and have one last night of heat — a temptation he could n't resist .
15 The ne'er-do-wells and the many sightseers mixed with the army of law clerks carrying rolls of parchment up from the cellar known as Hell where , Sir John explained , the legal records were kept .
16 The political reform proposals included open meetings of grass-roots party organizations ; the selection of officials up to the rank of Deputy Minister , district APL first secretary or divisional Army or militia commander , and of all enterprise and institution directors , to be " based on elections by the working people , on merit " in order to " have as few cadres as possible appointed directly from above " ; a limit of two terms in office for all members of elective party and state bodies , including the People 's Assembly ( parliament ) and the APL central committee ; a choice between candidates in elections to these bodies ( albeit only communist or communist-backed candidates ; Alia categorically ruled out abandoning " the hegemony of the APL " and allowing rival political parties ) ; and reduction in the bureaucratic apparatus .
17 It must be grown early and erm , and then just erm down , plenty of muck up in the ground , and erm they 'll grow .
18 The first source of ‘ goodness ’ is to be found in the millions of years of evolution up to the time of the ‘ Dawn of Civilisation ’ .
19 It was announced on Oct. 8 that the IMF had passed reviewed favourably its economic performance , freeing a tranche of credit up to the value of US$130,000,000 under the 1991 standby arrangement .
20 The weir is formed of stones which shoot fine sprays of water up through the gravel on the river bed in a similar fashion to a jacuzzi .
21 It 's actually got sixteen bars of start up at the moment , in short score ,
22 Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies .
23 They moved out of Cheapside up towards the old city wall which housed the infamous gaol , past the small church of Nicholas Le Quern near Blow-Bladder Street and into the great open space before the prison .
24 I tell you what I was quite disappointed as that , there was no , did n't seem to be a couple of stair up in the box office either the Lyceum I could see or there 's not that there 's
25 In doing so , it lays the foundations for achieving a better environment , assisting the economy and improving the quality of life up to the year 2005 .
26 A number of scholars up to the present have held that Mozart intended no difference in meaning between the two symbols .
27 It 's se seven miles of road up to the top .
28 Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body .
29 Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) .
30 It actually failed to put the price of cigarettes up in the budget last year and most people agree that a high price would be a major disincentive , second only to a heart attack .
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