Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | From Hobart to Cape Town and then in May he should be sailing up the Solent . |
| 3 | In 1962 , the Royal Commission on the Press recommended that there should be set up a Press Amalgamations Court , like the Restrictive Practices Court , consisting of judges of the High Court and lay members appointed on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Trades Union Congress and the Press Council . |
| 4 | I should be running up a flag to celebrate her going , not behaving like a weak boy myself . |
| 5 | The first action in conducting a stability test must be to draw up an examination schedule . |
| 6 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 7 | Yeah but it must be coming up the Daisy Hill . |
| 8 | I just wanted to let you know that in February , wo n't be hiding behind an OHP , erm I 'll be taking up a post with the European Commission , working with Aids services throughout Europe . |
| 9 | But an MP says he 'll be taking up the case , and demanding it go back to the courts for a stiffer sentence . |
| 10 | Instead , I 'll be taking up the ideas of Mr. Peter A. Fletcher and others for some more modern rock'n'roll and country licks . |
| 11 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |
| 12 | ‘ If we do n't do something extremely soon , ’ said Caspar , who was watching the giants furtively , ‘ they 'll be heating up the squares any minute . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 15 | Well anyway she reckons he 'll be starting up a business afterwards . |
| 16 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 17 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 18 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
| 19 | A company which claims to train a third of all motorcyclists in the country could be setting up a school at Langbaurgh 's Wheelbase complex at South Bank after winning council support . |
| 20 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 21 | Pundits reckon that Rocco Forte — boss of the Little Chef to Happy Eater chain — could be lining up a takeover for the prestigious London group and the price of the Savoy ‘ A ’ shares rocketed from 633p to 710p , before closing at £7 . |
| 22 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 23 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 24 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 25 | But R-134a has one drawback compared to propane and butane — it adds to the so-called greenhouse effect of pollution which may be heating up the earth 's climate . |
| 26 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 27 | It is possible , of course , to imagine that the first of these sentences describes one event and the second describes another , quite unrelated , event ( so the person identified as ‘ a mother ’ may be picking up a chair in the course of cleaning a room ) . |
| 28 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 29 | IT MAY be creeping up the ratings but as far as Britain 's teenagers are concerned , Eldorado is the pits . |
| 30 | They can often be blind to the fact that the good child may be stirring up the problem and letting the naughty one get the blame . |