Example sentences of "[adv] to be [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Langley is also a member of Animal Aid , an organisation with a radical image opposed to the use of animals in any research , who was unfortunate enough to be beaten up in 1987 by a member of an even more extreme splinter-group . ) |
| 2 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 3 | While I 'm on a journey I 'm always looking for cones and sometimes I 'm fortunate enough to be held up at traffic works . |
| 4 | ‘ The county council has been working there recently , putting up fencing all along it because it 's soon to be opened up as official footpath on a new part of the Teesdale Way , ’ said Mrs Brown . |
| 5 | And the message was soon to be taken up by American-influenced scientific management in industry . |
| 6 | And the claim to autonomous ducal sover-eighty over a duchy was soon to be taken up by other princes — the dukes of Brittany , Normandy and , ultimately , Burgundy . |
| 7 | An information office is shortly to be set up by East Hampshire District Council to answer queries about the drainage work taking place in the village . |
| 8 | The variety of sexual identities then possible took control of the ‘ private ’ out of the hands of the dominant culture ; it is this fact , just as much as the actual physical acts , that made the ‘ permissive ’ society ( as it was called by the right ) a phenomenon to be at first feared , and finally to be held up as what was wrong with Britain . |
| 9 | The iron ore deposits in the Nimba mountains on the border with Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia , which had a 65-70 per cent iron content , were finally to be opened up to exploitation , it was announced in December 1989 [ see p. 35436 for setting up in 1986 of iron ore project ] . |
| 10 | Several petrochemical plants owned by the armed forces were also to be put up for sale . |
| 11 | Well you know what it 's like now to be woken up in the night ! |
| 12 | Everything I own is now to be delivered up to Her Majesty 's Inland Revenue . |
| 13 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 14 | To engage in activities defined as ‘ craft ’ without thinking about it might appear to be a merry dance but the sludge is always there to be slipped up in . |
| 15 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 16 | However , these recommendations have yet to be taken up by the profession and corporate reports in the business sector have largely remained concerned with fulfilling the statutory duties relating to reporting profit and loss . |
| 17 | The injury itself occurred as a result of a cross-field back-row move , bereft of forward movement , that was quickly going nowhere to be swallowed up by the English midfield . |
| 18 | With regard to phases of spectacular radiation , the two most important in the Phanerozoic record , affecting a large variety of organisms , correlate closely with major physical events that appear ultimately to be bound up with plate tectonics . |