Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 2 | Tables can be used as desks ; end tables can be used for dining ; chairs can fold up and be hung from large colourful hooks , or be stacked up into a tiny space ; armchairs can become spare single beds ; well thought-out storage will take care of clothing , books , files and china . |
| 3 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 4 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 5 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 6 | The haulier should be aware of the circumstances in which he ( or his debtor ) may be wound up on a voluntary basis and the circumstances in which his company ( or his debtor 's ) may be wound up by the court . |
| 7 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 8 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 9 | The men eventually ran off , leaving Thomas of Mochdre , near Colwyn Bay , to be picked up by a passing motorist . |
| 10 | The men eventually ran off , leaving Thomas of Mochdre , near Colwyn Bay , to be picked up by a passing motorist . |
| 11 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 12 | Part of the fever of the times ; if the Black Panther Huey Newton , posing with rifle and spear , could be written up as a theoretical genius , and his partner , Bobby Seale , interpreted as a tactical wizard , then how much a symbol was Ali — the first to tap and manifest glinting black pride , to dispute with vigour erosive self-laceration . |
| 13 | But even if it is n't , it is far better to start with a concise piece of information which can be built up into a bigger story if the circumstances are right than to send out a wordy release which is immediately discarded . |
| 14 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 15 | The claim is that these rules can be built up from a simple base . |
| 16 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 17 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 18 | The main board will normally be made up of a chief executive , who will hold the office of managing director , or possibly chairman , or both , and will include a number of ‘ heads of department ’ , for example the finance director , personnel director , technical director , and so on . |
| 19 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 20 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 21 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 22 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 23 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |
| 24 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
| 25 | In open rock pools , Bullheads , Taurulus bubalis , Dragonets , and Gobies , are some of the small fish that can be scooped up with a small net , together with Hermit Crabs that can be spied trundling over the bottom . |
| 26 | All of which had had to be bottled up during a frustrating day . |
| 27 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 28 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 29 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 30 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |