Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 2 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 3 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 4 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 5 | Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) . |
| 6 | Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments . |
| 7 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 8 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 9 | They were the disciples of one Malam Ibrahim , a teacher of the Koran whose studies had slowly convinced him that the Jesus of whom he read in its pages was the mediator through whom the prayers of the faithful are offered up to the All-Merciful . |
| 10 | The interests of the overwhelming majority of professional people , small business men , shopkeepers and farmers are bound up with the social progress of the Labour and Democratic Movements . |
| 11 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 14 | Compadrazgo relations are set up through the ritual sponsorship of the church system of appointing godparents for children . |
| 15 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 16 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 17 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 18 | Working-class artists are brought up with the traditional — at best , and if they can get it . |
| 19 | Most of us who are brought up in the Western Christian tradition take the divinity of Jesus for granted or regard it as a philosophical problem . |
| 20 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | RUNRIG are lined up as the main attraction of the second Scottish Fleadh , a day-long celebration of Celtic music , to be held on Glasgow Green on 5 June . |
| 23 | I hope you will take a look at the document and do whatever you can to ensure its recommendations are taken up in the final version of the regulations . |
| 24 | But there are several aspects of this prophetic Spirit that are especially important , and they are taken up in the New Testament . |
| 25 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 26 | ‘ Since Big Bang , all the market prices are flashed up on the electronic screens . ’ |
| 27 | That a similar system be set up for the archival negative collections which would be rehoused within the proposed new photographic suite . |