Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 2 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 3 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 4 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 5 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 6 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 7 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 8 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 9 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 10 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 11 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 13 | The oscillations stimulated in the sample are picked up by an arm attached to the rigidly fixed end held in torsion bars , and transmitted to a recorder by a linear variable differential transformer . |
| 14 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 15 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 16 | The suggestion is that the other dimensions are curved up into a space of very small size , something like a million million million million millionth of an inch . |
| 17 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 18 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 19 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 20 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 21 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 22 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 23 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 24 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 25 | Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs . |
| 26 | Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment . |
| 27 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 28 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 29 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 30 | Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike . |