Example sentences of "[Wh det] are [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The experimental observations agree well with this criterion , especially when allowance is made for the transfer of small amounts of fine particles which are swept up into the upper convecting layer across the interface .
2 Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) .
3 And to provide the same information to shareholders and competitive bidders as they provide to the banks which are coming up with the funding .
4 ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . )
5 Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out .
6 The work of the council is in the main carried out in committees of the council which are set up by the council usually at its first meeting after the election is over .
7 It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ .
8 These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change .
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