Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been drawn up following a widespread survey in the towns of Chelmsford , Southend and Colchester . |
| 2 | Even worse , opponents ' wives are turning up to keep a beady eye on proceedings . |
| 3 | Operation Osprey has now been set up to tackle a fresh wave … a team of detectives are trying to establish a concrete link between the cases [ Craven is talking against a backcloth of computers ] . |
| 4 | Documents-only arbitrations have been set up to provide a simple means of resolving complaints by consumers in a number of industries , such as travel and telephones . |
| 5 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |
| 6 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 7 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 8 | The floaty , translucent , viscose jacket costs £195 ; the gathered skirt , with its lycra waistband which can be rolled up to form a strapless dress , is £169 , and the long overtop costs £105 . |
| 9 | It is proposed that the programme of implementation should be drawn up following a consultative exercise involving all colleges . |
| 10 | Many disciplines can be called up to impart a critical perspective , and questions and strategies can be mounted which have use across a wide variety of courses of study . |
| 11 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 12 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 13 | In sharp contrast to her mood , the rain had gone and the clouds were breaking up to reveal a blue sky . |
| 14 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 15 | In others the high cumulus is breaking up to give a lovely summer evening . |
| 16 | In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign . |
| 17 | In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer . |