Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of activities recommended for programmes of study is drawn up in general terms and , for the most part , gathered in clusters to enable schools to match their particular planned activities to our specifications . |
| 2 | This issue was followed up in qualitative interviews with a panel of young people , for while we can not make a simple equation between aloneness and the experience of social and psychological difficulty , young people do seem to need to interact with friends in resolving some of their conflicts . |
| 3 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 4 | However , just as the Nordic states abandoned the idea of close economic integration , the theme was taken up in new developments elsewhere which , if they had a role model in mind , were to be based upon the more intensive ambitions of Benelux rather than the loose informal formats ultimately favoured by Britain and Scandinavia . |
| 5 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 6 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 7 | The public-sector strike was stepped up in early May ; by May 6 there were over 400,000 strikers . |
| 8 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 9 | Tea had been made and a big cake like the one served in the library was cut up in thick slices on the table . |
| 10 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 11 | For example , much of the nitrogen is locked up in organic materials which plant organisms break down slowly into ‘ plant-available ’ nitrates . |
| 12 | ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock . |
| 13 | The underlying problem is that £130 million of the SERC 's budget is tied up in international projects , says Richmond , leaving only £300 million spare . |
| 14 | In most human societies the social field is cut up in other ways . |
| 15 | Our President , Dick , sits on Industrial Injury Advisory Council , and does his utmost , but as Dick knows only too well , that the system is tangled up in red tape , and also Tory ministers who are busy cutting costs at the expense of injured workers . |
| 16 | The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block . |
| 17 | The latest accounts from the Greenwich and Cumberland building societies usefully illustrate how the residential property market is holding up in different parts of the UK . |