Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 2 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 3 | Since it carries the sole generator ( and hydraulic pump ) the left engine is fired up first . |
| 4 | It is because goods and services are produced by factors of production that income is created in an economy , so another way of calculating the value of total output is to add up all the incomes ( that is , wages , salaries , interest , rent and profits ) of all factors of production , those producing intermediate goods as well as those producing final goods . |
| 5 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 6 | That is why the Turkish Federation are putting up such huge cash incentives for the team to beat England who , claims Piontek , have fallen behind in the world league . |
| 7 | General Accident is putting up 500,000 for research on the psychology of the road user . |
| 8 | Painting software 's most practical use is to clean up scanned-in photographs to improve the output quality . |
| 9 | Denplan Care was set up five years ago by two dentists and now has 200,000 patients and 3,000 dentists . |
| 10 | The big digger is holding up all the traffic . |
| 11 | What one has to do where this conflict is between a welfare aim and a conservation aim is to weigh up all the evidence carefully and decide what is , morally , the right thing to do . |
| 12 | This whole fucking area is sewn up tighter than a nun 's crotch , ’ Gregson grunted . |
| 13 | An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing , sitting or walking . |
| 14 | One of the growing practices in modern legislation is to set up supervisory bodies , or ‘ watchdogs ’ , to monitor the effects of the law in society . |
| 15 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 16 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |
| 17 | The only role of the Labour party is to stir up any bad news that it can get hold of to give a bad image of Wales . |
| 18 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 19 | My obsessed , starveling brain was conjuring up all sorts of ghastly images to accompany this sort of talk ; things arising , coming up … |