Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] up with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 2 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 3 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 4 | The likeable Welshman , who came via the coaching route from Western Province , says he is fed up with the intrigue and politics of rugby . |
| 5 | A friend of mine suggests this is because my system is all transistor rather than valves , but the processor and power amp both sound fine when the volume of each is turned up with the volume of the other turned down . |
| 6 | Nom I 'll have to sneak out while she 's tied up with the party . |
| 7 | Most women care intensely about the surroundings in which they live , and their sense of security is tied up with the home ; their moods and personalities feed into the home and contribute to its atmosphere . |
| 8 | A major difficulty , here , is that the idea of communication is tied up with the idea of intention , and intention is a very tricky concept in literary criticism . |
| 9 | That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line . |
| 10 | This for Lévi-Strauss is tied up with the business of ‘ science ’ , which aims to discover truths that are universal and that can be seen to be a product of their method . |
| 11 | This latter recommendation is tied up with the setting up of a Media Enterprise Board which would provide funding — funding derived from an advertising levy — for all newly established media . |
| 12 | As with Frankie , so much of the pleasure is bound up with the sense of something breaking out all over the surfaces of everyday life , and you being in on it from the start . |
| 13 | Angelica Kauffman 's history is bound up with the elite classes whose rituals of social dominance included visiting her in her fashionable studio in Golden Square , Soho , or commissioning a portrait or a decorative ensemble from this latest London novelty ( who was , of course , a really fine artist and being fashionable then was not a pejorative condition when fashionability was synonymous with being part of ‘ society ’ ) . |
| 14 | That , of course , is bound up with the issue of income maintenance . |
| 15 | This is bound up with the content of suspended solids and can be estimated by matching samples against known standards of dispersed solids or more readily by direct measurement in an instrument such as the EEL Hazometer . |
| 16 | Its life is bound up with the achievement of tasks or programmes , and is realised through them . |
| 17 | The history of the development of state systems of income maintenance for men is bound up with the development of wage-labour and the separation of men and women from direct and independent access to the means of subsistence . |
| 18 | For both Habermas and Althusser the problem of analysing ideology is bound up with the status of valid knowledge . |
| 19 | It is bound up with the family as a whole . |
| 20 | One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers . |
| 21 | The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting . |
| 22 | Anthropology is bound up with the understanding of lived circumstances rather than abstract thought , the basis of anthropological knowledge being first and always ethnography . |
| 23 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 24 | Flanders ( 1970 ) found that , on average , two-thirds of classroom time is taken up with the teacher talking , and two-thirds of this talk consists of lecturing or explaining . |
| 25 | Once a director able to work his obsessions into powerful narrative films like ‘ Point Blank ’ and ‘ Deliverance ’ , he has drifted towards autobiographical whimsy , with predictable consequences : much of his diary is taken up with the crisis of confidence after the failure of his ‘ Where the Heart Is ’ . |
| 26 | Accordingly , much of Volume I of the Critique is taken up with the attempt to prove the dialectic a priori as the universal method and the law of anthropology , superseding that which Kant had provided for analytical reason . |