Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it can observe the animals illuminated by its red searchlight , while they swim in the dark , quite unaware that they are being eyed up as a potential meal . |
| 2 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 3 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 4 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 5 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 6 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 7 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 8 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 9 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 10 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 11 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |
| 12 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 13 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 14 | But again the songs ( whose content Comrade Wong resolutely translated for us in stage-whispers throughout ) harped on the great achievements of Mao , Chou and Hua , the last of whom seems to be being built up into a great leader matching his predecessors in stature . |
| 15 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 16 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 17 | For instance , broad policies for assisting new enterprise may simply result in some businesses being thrust up onto the crowded platform at the expense of others pushed off it . |
| 18 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 19 | Ministers clearly recognise there is widespread concern about the outcome of the new assessment process , the wide variations appearing in eligibility criteria , and about the contracts being drawn up with the independent sector . |
| 20 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 21 | In view of the evaporation of the objections of the BMA and a large number of doctors to the Government 's policy , does my hon. Friend agree that the debate is being drawn up along the following lines , with the Confederation of Health Service Employees , the National Union of Public Employees and the Labour party on one side and the Government , the taxpayers and the patients on the other ? |
| 22 | President Lansana Conte ( who on April 4 , 1990 , was given the rank of major-general by the CMRN ) said in his 1990 New Year address that the draft constitution being drawn up by a 50-member committee chaired by Foreign Minister Maj. Jean Traore would be submitted to the nation for discussion and amendment during 1990 ; a referendum on it would be held by the end of the year [ see also p. 37060 ] . |
| 23 | THE debate on ways in which Merseyside might benefit from up to £1bn in EC grants is being opened up to a wider audience in a novel fashion later this month . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 25 | Now that Rune had taken charge of the whole operation , bringing in ‘ back-up ’ troops , her own futile efforts were being shown up for the amateur plan they were ! |
| 26 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 27 | Large numbers of drowned dolphins are being washed up on the south-western coasts of England , apparently as a result of being caught in fishing nets . |
| 28 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 29 | A film like Mary Jane 's Mishap ( 1903 ) , in which an uncouth maid who has been a little careless with the paraffin evaporates through the chimney , but returns in ghostly form to visit her grave , derives its fantasy elements from magic lantern shows , whereas The Big Swallow ( 1901 ) , which shows camera and cameraman being swallowed up in a restless jaw , is more evidently a response to the medium 's possibilities . |
| 30 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |