Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed to be given up to the birds and their morning hymns …
2 The unit can include as many net-armed and as many club-armed Night Goblins as you wish , and they can be mixed up in the ranks as you please .
3 The legal process , when invoked , has to be speeded up in the interests of the child .
4 Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War .
5 It was hard to be torn up by the roots , to have his books , easels , prints and materials of study dragged from their places .
6 But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms .
7 If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes .
8 If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes .
9 Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ?
10 The stocking level would be built up over the weeks .
11 Thus , a reserve could be built up within the funds of the company partner making use of the small companies corporation tax rate .
12 So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change .
13 The environment of the lyric poem must , in consequence , be matched up with the features we note in the analysis .
14 Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break .
15 Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break .
16 If the securities are to be listed in the member state where the issuer has its registered office , the listing particulars must be drawn up under the laws of , and approved by , the competent authority in that member state .
17 Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents .
18 Well I mean , they 'll all be packed up in the bars upstairs would n't they , and everything
19 I 'm going to be tied up with the cops , I expect . ’
20 These can be summed up in the words of the Royal Society 's working party on Girls and Mathematics :
21 As I say , you 'd be paying two plans , two policy fees , two setting up charges , administration costs etc , so there 's all that to be weighed up with the advantages over , I 've actually got another plan , but I can only claim half of it , for the first six months .
22 The potential benefits must be weighed up against the costs involved and the risk of failure .
23 If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress .
24 The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers .
25 And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames .
26 While the Washington process had co-ordinated aid to the republics on a sector basis , with working groups in such areas as food , medicine , energy and shelter , new mechanisms to be set up under the auspices of the World Bank would seek to manage aid on a country-by-country basis .
27 The press played down these reverses , and they paled into insignificance when in spring 1943 word spread that a prisoner of-war camp was going to be set up on the outskirts of Fontanellato .
28 The change in status means that control of the ancient woodlands is to be taken out of the hands of the Forestry Commission , who were opposed to the move , and a new governing body is to be set up along the lines of the Norfolk Broads Authority .
29 Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’
30 The usual collection is to be taken up for the Communications work of the Church .
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