Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 2 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 3 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart . |
| 5 | Something of a spiritual vacuum prevailed following the discrediting of the orthodoxy hitherto imposed , and the values that had been so obviously tied up with the victor 's success and the material prosperity of the US seemed to be espoused with enthusiasm . |
| 6 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 7 | His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 8 | Only they will probably both know that these must not include anything too worrying or controversial , which could create the type of tension and anxiety that can so easily build up in the elderly , particularly in the many who suffer from circulatory troubles , or who have a naturally anxious personality which has become even more vulnerable with age . |
| 9 | it was literally b literally like going up to the shop and buying a newspaper . |
| 10 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 11 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 12 | First , a lot had been achieved ( other countries were only now catching up with the Clean Air Act ) . |
| 13 | ‘ We are only now facing up to the fact that people with learning difficulties are vulnerable to abuse . |
| 14 | They rummage around and every so often come up with a new act . |
| 15 | It is worth reminding oneself , therefore , that the institution of marriage , which is so often held up as the ideal against which other relationships are to be measured , is certainly not unaffected by financial considerations . |
| 16 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 17 | The important point about disillusioned youth is somewhat slackly followed up in the book . |
| 18 | One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa , and there is indirect evidence to suggest that this so . |
| 19 | Another possible reason for this discrepancy may be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa than 5-ASA , resulting in subtherapeutic mucosal concentrations . |
| 20 | In Texas it may be described as the past constantly almost catching up with the future , leaving no stable present time . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Senior Citizen Council , heavily political and apparently fully wired up to the city budget , spends over $10m a year . |
| 22 | ‘ I am so closely blocked up by an army of Misfortunes , ’ he told Mary Evans in one of his increasingly fond letters , ‘ that really there is no passage left open for Mirth or any thing else . ’ |
| 23 | But , as 1992 approaches , and with the violence associated with the game so closely tied up with the image of England 's fans , it is the challenge of European integration which must provide new directions for the people 's game . |
| 24 | There are other cases where such trusts are in danger of becoming sleepy animals , only barely keeping up with the minimum requirement to provide public access . |
| 25 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 26 | The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way . |
| 27 | Obsessionals are very good at dividing up their minds as it were , but they 're not necessarily divided up in the sense of conscious and unconscious . |
| 28 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 29 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 30 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |