Example sentences of "[conj] are [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 From here the oils diffuse into the bloodstream or are taken up by the lymph and interstitial fluid ( a liquid surrounding all body cells ) to other parts of the body .
2 Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers .
3 That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house .
4 Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore .
5 Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes .
6 There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total .
7 The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games .
8 If the idea of popping a PC or a printer into your shopping trolley alongside the jam , teabags and toilet paper appeals to you , why not try a day out to one of the PC World superstores that are cropping up on the outskirts of London ?
9 At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ .
10 Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May .
11 The IT and CTT policies are policies of indemnity and are settled up to the limits of each policy section less applicable excesses .
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