Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation . |
| 2 | From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising . |
| 3 | The ‘ magic realism ’ is conjured up with great skill and paints a vivid historical picture which few history books can better . |
| 4 | Between the channels , all of which will be ‘ swept ’ in the direction of flow , the chamber is built up with concrete benching so that any splashes are directed back into the channels . |
| 5 | The armour is built up from woven fabric supplied by Courtaulds Aerospace Performance Fabrics at Littleborough and impregnated with resin by Courtaulds Aerospace Electrical Insulation , of Runcorn . |
| 6 | The Pacific is unique in that it is made up of small island states with very limited resources and the way ahead is to work together . |
| 7 | Do n't faint , but most of the dust in your home is made up of flaked-off skin ! |
| 8 | The other half per cent is made up of radioactive waste . |
| 9 | This Panel is made up of Social Work and Health staff who will decide if you should receive the Service . |
| 10 | The surface of the calyx is made up of closely-fitting lime plates , the stems and branches of bead-like discs of the same material . |
| 11 | According to the inductivist account of science , the secure basis on which the laws and theories that constitute science are built is made up of public observation statements rather than the private , subjective experiences of individual observers . |
| 12 | Most readers of this book aged over 30 will have been taught at school that the atom is made up of little billiard balls : in the centre there is the nucleus , made of biggish billiard balls called protons and neutrons ; around the nucleus travel very small billiard balls called electrons . |
| 13 | Now mum Nicola , who is fed up with 20-month-old Jasmin saying ‘ ayup ’ , wants to move from her housing association home in Buckland , Portsmouth . |
| 14 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 15 | Our President , Dick , sits on Industrial Injury Advisory Council , and does his utmost , but as Dick knows only too well , that the system is tangled up in red tape , and also Tory ministers who are busy cutting costs at the expense of injured workers . |
| 16 | In general , the wider ( and often cheaper ) choice of credit types which is opened up by monthly-paid bank accounts seems to us to be , on its own , a big enough advantage to outweigh what is really the temporary awkwardness of change to a new set of habits . |
| 17 | Her hypothesis is ‘ that context-dependent speech is tied up with context-dependent thought , which in turn is the opposite of abstract thought ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock . |
| 19 | There is , of course , a legal way to get works of art out of Russia , but it is tied up in red tape . |
| 20 | We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch . |
| 21 | If this friendly attitude is followed up with prompt service the good impression is stamped even deeper . |
| 22 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 23 | As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture . |
| 24 | Much of the Guide Book is taken up with careful description of colourful life in the Lake District . |
| 25 | As we have seen , most of the internal volume of wood material is taken up with empty space , or at least by air and sap . |
| 26 | Most of the agricultural sector is taken up by part-time crofting but , unusual for Shetland , there are tracts of fertile land sufficiently extensive to allow for some full-time farming . |
| 27 | This means that a good proportion of the interview is taken up by passing information to the candidate . |
| 28 | This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon . |
| 29 | Recently , I met with er , the probation people from Social Services to discuss exactly what Major has asked about , which is follow up on juvenile fire setters , and find out if there 's any way in which we can modify their behaviour . |
| 30 | Object Design UK is headed up by managing director , James Beagle . |