Example sentences of "up [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will not benefit the buyer if all the shares are taken up when the transferor is compelled to make a pre-emptive offer , but it does not follow that all of them will be taken up and , if not , the transferee has a better claim to those shares not taken up than has the transferor . |
| 2 | Ironically , Nevin had been Tranmere 's only slight disappointment up until producing a clinical finish to punish defender Richard Smith 's miscued header eight minutes from time . |
| 3 | That is why some people adore eating spiders and grubs , whilst others would throw up if fed a pork chop . |
| 4 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 5 | Most of the Salyut craft is believed to have burned up while re-entering the atmosphere but the Argentine defence ministry said in a statement that fragments weighing up to 1.5 tonnes reached the Earth . |
| 6 | At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time . |
| 7 | The government — and Congress , which will finally decide the issue — will also have to weigh up whether to sell the Department of the Interior 's data centre in South Dakota , that distributes Landsat pictures . |
| 8 | Something like the ‘ civil religion ’ of American life , or the compromising good-sense of the British , is held up as embodying the culture at large . |
| 9 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 10 | They understand straight up as meaning the direction of the sun , and they know which direction is straight up because they are sensitive to gravity . |
| 11 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 12 | The full expression of flight can really be conjured up when drawing the gliders and soarers . |