Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] up " in BNC.

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1 These diseases are common in areas er where an out pouring of water from the individual is squared up with a ou , out pouring of people into the water , then you can appreciate that that transmission is very er , readily promoted under those circumstances .
2 Sugar goes in too at this stage before the coffee is heated up .
3 There used to be a well here long ago , but it 's filled up now — the men do n't use it any more .
4 Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete .
5 Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through .
6 In this fashion dirt is broken up into particles until activity is exhausted .
7 In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow .
8 This is broken up as follows :
9 Life Assurance ( this is broken up into three basic types )
10 Many people control their feelings through muscle tension and may re-experience these feelings spontaneously when the muscle spasm is broken up .
11 In fact , the calculation of the new y can be simplified by recognising that , in the notation of Section 8.1 , if the edge p to q is deleted without adding the edge I to J , the tree T is broken up into two smaller sub-trees .
12 The assembly task is broken up into segments , each being performed by a group of operatives in one bay of the plant , and taking about 20 minutes .
13 But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze .
14 This fascinating program is broken up into several parts .
15 Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces .
16 At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax .
17 America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help .
18 The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections .
19 Like kung fu , karate is broken up into many styles , each professing to have within its range of techniques the answer to many combat situations .
20 The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation .
21 The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s .
22 Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt .
23 So And you have to do n't use too much oil and you use the oil on it you know , and then when you get what we call a good body on it , that 's when all the pores is filled up .
24 Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him .
25 She 's ripped up everything in her bedroom and she 's thrown milk all over the kitchen . ’
26 The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be .
27 But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully .
28 Well I 'm not the only one , this is the whole point , I 'm not the only one , most everyone here 's rang up about it .
29 Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes .
30 The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims .
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