Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 2 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 3 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 4 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 5 | The nature of the laterality index one chooses is intimately bound up with the sort of theoretical question one wishes to ask ( Eling , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 7 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 8 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |
| 9 | The history of the use of herbs in food is naturally bound up with the history of food itself . |
| 10 | It is entirely tied up with the intensity of interest or desire which you apply to the various things you do . |
| 11 | The Governors ' commitment to the new scientific revolution is perhaps summed up in the concluding paragraph of the Minutes : |
| 12 | This principle of inclusive fitness is perhaps summed up by the answer reportedly given by the distinguished biologist J. B. S. Haldane when asked in a bar whether he would lay down his life for his brother . |
| 13 | The reason the market economy or catallaxy produces fresh wealth rather than simply redistributing existing wealth is critically bound up with the way in which market prices act as signals containing vital information . |
| 14 | Yet any comparison of British and foreign economic performance over the period since 1945 is soon brought up against the effects of different institutional forms . |
| 15 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the level of interest is not backed up by the right level of knowledge either from prospective users or from many of the suppliers . |
| 17 | But real life , both human life and plant and animal life , is not set up for the benefit of spectators . |
| 18 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |
| 19 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 20 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 21 | At the provincial level there are Land Use Planning Officers , although their time is largely taken up by the supervision of settlement schemes and in planning state farms ( Stocking 1981b ) . |
| 22 | It 's not part of our culture ; it 's not written up in the history books . |
| 23 | In newborn babies , the infection is usually picked up from the mother 's vagina during birth . |
| 24 | Skilled craft workers frequently establish their own methods and pace of work , and this control by the occupational group is usually backed up by the craft union . |
| 25 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 26 | But as far as the security services are concerned , the Kremlin is still plotting to undermine world capitalism and J. Edgar Hoover is still holed up in the FBI powder room . |
| 27 | The most satisfactory extrinsic marker is [ 3H ] thymidine which , due to the rapid cell cycle of early post-implantation embryonic cells , is quickly taken up by the vast majority of cells and appears not to be deleterious to development ( 25 ) . |
| 28 | The Purple Airway is temporarily set up over the route covered by a Royal Flight . |
| 29 | Patterns of leaving home are affected by housing availability — indeed the relatively late age at which British children leave home compared to many other countries is probably tied up with the lack of suitable type and tenure of housing for young single people ( Kiernan , 1986a ; Sullivan , 1984 ; Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | In the building industry in France , Sweden , Britain and West Germany the fact that the respective employers ' organisations are essentially federations is also tied up with the structure of collective bargaining , since in most cases the local or regional organisation was — or is — a bargaining agent ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |