Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 2 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 3 | Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart . |
| 4 | Something of a spiritual vacuum prevailed following the discrediting of the orthodoxy hitherto imposed , and the values that had been so obviously tied up with the victor 's success and the material prosperity of the US seemed to be espoused with enthusiasm . |
| 5 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 6 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 7 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 8 | It is worth reminding oneself , therefore , that the institution of marriage , which is so often held up as the ideal against which other relationships are to be measured , is certainly not unaffected by financial considerations . |
| 9 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 10 | The important point about disillusioned youth is somewhat slackly followed up in the book . |
| 11 | One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa , and there is indirect evidence to suggest that this so . |
| 12 | Another possible reason for this discrepancy may be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa than 5-ASA , resulting in subtherapeutic mucosal concentrations . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the Senior Citizen Council , heavily political and apparently fully wired up to the city budget , spends over $10m a year . |
| 14 | But , as 1992 approaches , and with the violence associated with the game so closely tied up with the image of England 's fans , it is the challenge of European integration which must provide new directions for the people 's game . |
| 15 | The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way . |
| 16 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 17 | He was ‘ more largely mixed up with the principal people and events of his time than any other man ’ ( Charles Greville , Greville Memoirs , 1874–8 ) . |
| 18 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 19 | The audience settled quickly after the interval and was soon once more caught up in the mounting dramatic tension of The Hooded Owl . |
| 20 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 21 | Considering that the money is also effectively locked up in the bond for a chosen period , usually between one and five years , with the interest rate fixed at this new lower level , it could be the wrong choice . |
| 22 | It is , I believe , a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world , and this quality is probably best summed up by the term ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 23 | But the most surprising difference was that their axes of preferential response were clearly not lined up with the axes of the on-off directionally selective type , and when Clyde Oyster and I analysed this in more detail we found what is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 24 | He and Vivienne were also probably fed up with the teds ' meathead mentality . |
| 25 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 26 | The Kenya administration in particular included a number of vigorous reformers , most prominent among them R.W. Hemsted and C.E.V. Buxton — both completely wrapped up in the Masai and both determined to bring them , under British supervision , into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral . |
| 28 | In Hong Kong , where there is a well-oiled storm warning machine piloted by the staff of the ancient Royal Observatory , the entire community becomes rather gaily caught up in the summertime ritual of typhoon watch . |
| 29 | The Centre 's resources are now fully taken up with the activities described above . |
| 30 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |