Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [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 In the case of n-ary relationships , the relationship becomes a member record , each of the entities linked by the relationship becomes an owner , their keys are made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and the attributes of the entity become fields of the records generated .
18 Though French brands still account for nearly half of the luxury market , German , British , Italian and even a few Japanese and American brands are showing up on the shelves .
19 Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan .
20 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 .
21 Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape .
22 These matters are taken up in the next chapter .
23 He is furious that billions of pounds he wanted freed to put in people 's pockets are locked up by the banks ' determination to boost profits .
24 High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body .
25 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 .
26 Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological .
27 Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom .
28 The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers .
29 Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this .
30 But erm the logistics costs are made up from the costs of procuring spares and support equipment largely and er for an aircraft such as this , the amount of equipment required to operate at first line is very low indeed .
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