Example sentences of "up [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hair fell over his forehead in a damp straight lock and his blue eyes were screwed up as if in concern or alarm . |
| 2 | We had dinner and a floor show , when part of the floor rose up as if by magic and a cabaret was presented . |
| 3 | ‘ Wow ! ’ said Angalo , his eyes lighting up as if by some internal power source . |
| 4 | The heat from the room below belched up as if from a furnace . |
| 5 | The smell was terrible , worse than anything Maggie had ever known , and on this frosty morning steam came up as if from a dung heap . |
| 6 | In their natural environment , ramblers spread and sprawl over the ground or up into and over other plants or objects that offer support — a more literal name would be ‘ scrambler ’ — and their frequent use is to be tied to and draped over arches , pergolas , fences and similar supports . |
| 7 | It was a very tricky operation to get the barrels safely down on to the road , up onto and across the pavement to the lift . |
| 8 | Other features like glottal stops , devoicing , slowing down and speeding up before or after pause , etc. , may also cause pronunciation difficulties and require practice . |
| 9 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 10 | It climbs up to and over a ridge and on the ascent reveals an exquisite vista of Loch Maree , a foretaste of joys to come . |
| 11 | You were up to and over your knees in water in the trench : it was supposed to be our dug-out and it was coming through these bits o' wood and we were a-sodden wet through and cold . |
| 12 | 22mm vent pipe leading up to and over the cold water storage cistern |
| 13 | And we 've noticed that up to and over the last two to three weeks , not only because our sale is on er but we 're far more confident about the general economy . |
| 14 | One of the most challenging walks is the Ridge Trek , a strenuous hike leading up to and along the ridge of the Kincardine Hills on the northern edge of the forest park . |
| 15 | Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent . |
| 16 | if some planning application consultations are delayed , this should be the result of a conscious decision , discussed with me — you will need to keep the team paperwork moving up to and during the inquiry . |
| 17 | For the six days up to and including Wednesday , no trains had reached Armenia from Azerbaijan . |
| 18 | Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 19 | • The employee pays NI contributions on earnings up to and including the upper earnings limit . |
| 20 | NI contributions are normally paid at an initial percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the lower earnings limit , and at a main percentage rate on earnings between the lower and employee 's upper earnings limit . |
| 21 | If your employee has the right to pay the married woman or widow 's reduced rate NI contributions , she pays employee 's NI contributions at a fixed reduced percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the upper earnings limit . |
| 22 | Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 . |
| 23 | There was what seemed to be an endless round of meetings to discuss our coverage , with Ford personnel up to and including European vice-presidents . |
| 24 | Peter Dray , testing and commissioning engineer : ‘ Manifested all problems produced by BR reorganisation ; less than happy ’ with his job , as shown by performance in days up to and including November 27 ; despite having facilities , time and assistance for an independent wire count of Hemingway 's work , did not do this — far from being ‘ the last defence ’ , was no defence at all . |
| 25 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 26 | Such was the pattern up to and including the minority of James V. With Mary 's , it became abundantly clear that the age of limited political struggles was over . |
| 27 | ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 28 | Davies , who was recruited last August by Wales , was last week confirmed as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 29 | In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day . |
| 30 | I think it 's more productive to be polite , ’ ) whose primary aim was to secure the future of the rainforest in an area stretching from the Heath Sanctuary on the Bolivian border up to and including Manu and the Tambopata Reserves : an area of one and a half million hectares , the size of Switzerland . |