Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 3 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 4 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 5 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 6 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 7 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 8 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 9 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 10 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 11 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 12 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 13 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 14 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 15 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 16 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 17 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 18 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 19 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 20 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 21 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 22 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 23 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 24 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 25 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 26 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 27 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 28 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 29 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 30 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |