Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 2 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 3 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 4 | Yet they can be dressed up to look like the international ‘ co-ordination ’ that the IMF , for one , has long advocated . |
| 5 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |