Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 2 | Other tales in The Silmarillion are better worked up into narrative , and yet seem to spring likewise from single scenes , single outcries . |
| 3 | And , Carol , I suppose your spare time activities are largely taken up with your family these days ? |
| 4 | Alan Cooke , who has the disadvantage of playing ‘ cold ’ in the doubles while his opponents are invariably warmed up from previous games , hit a cascade of winners in the crucial mid-match doubles . |
| 5 | Spontaneous precipitation from surface waters is actually fairly rare because most of the carbonate a ions are weakly bound up with magnesium ions in surface waters . |
| 6 | Psychological experiments of the rats-in-mazes kind are always set up in such a way that , even if the animals concerned had been capable of exercising individual judgement in such a way as to wreck the experiment , this fact would escape detection . |
| 7 | These molecules are then picked up by receptor proteins on the surface of the second cell . |
| 8 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 9 | Perhaps the changes to Illustrator are best summed up by stating that the program has simultaneously made itself more accessible to the average user and significantly more useful to the professional . |
| 10 | Today , when facing the outside world , the strategy of senior civil servants is also frequently one of hedging ; programmes are often put up to three donors simultaneously , so that the influence of one can be offset against the influence of another . |
| 11 | Power circuits on a modern installation are also wired up in one of two ways , as ring or radical circuits . |
| 12 | To receive the full benefit of the policy , therefore , it must be held to maturity , particularly since the first two years ' premiums are largely taken up in charges . |
| 13 | Direct Debit makes sure that your premiums are automatically kept up to date , and that you do n't have to worry about bills and reminders . |
| 14 | Journalists are quickly caught up in pursuing the stories they generate , with an invigorating rush of adrenalin . |
| 15 | When the kids are safely tucked up in bed , Saturday night is surely the ideal time for resting . |
| 16 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 17 | Ford tested Options in 15,000 deals for two years before launching it nationwide , so many of those cars are now coming up for sale . |
| 18 | If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms . |
| 19 | The representative of one small electrical cooking appliance manufacturer achieved excellent coverage by offering to cook breakfast actually in the studio for local DJs , and interviews with cookery authors are often backed up with sample dishes to taste in the studio . |
| 20 | The set-up costs for mass media channels are often bid up by media corporations using oligopolistic tactics to exclude new entrants to competition . |
| 21 | For in fact political theories , doctrines or ideologies , and political action are inextricably bound up with each other . |
| 22 | It has never been the policy of National Parks to accept large housing estates , but applications for tourist complexes are now cropping up with alarming frequency at planning meetings . |
| 23 | Associated with them was the potentially much more radical assumption that the foreign relations of States were indissolubly bound up with the structure of their internal politics . |
| 24 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 25 | A network of relationships were gradually built up between different sites and finds until a sequence of events became clear . |
| 26 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 27 | Communication channels were immediately set up between the site , Melbourne , Port Moresby and London . |
| 28 | The bronzes were later set up in the Porticus Metelli , the first secular building in Rome specifically intended for the display of booty . |
| 29 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 30 | There must be a facility whereby , when the user calls up any OED entry , the corresponding Supplement entry is automatically called up with it , and vice versa . |