Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 2 | However , if surveyors are to keep up with the inevitable changes taking place , they must become familiar with the new contracts . |
| 3 | Working-class artists are brought up with the traditional — at best , and if they can get it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 6 | Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey . |
| 7 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 8 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 11 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 12 | Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) . |
| 13 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 14 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 15 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 16 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 17 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 18 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 19 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 20 | The IDB 's Trade Fair programme also aims to visit a balanced mixture of major UK and European exhibitions , with IDB group stands being set up for the Northern Ireland companies taking part . |
| 21 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 22 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 23 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 24 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 25 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 26 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 27 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 28 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 29 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 30 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |