Example sentences of "[vb pp] up on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 2 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 3 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 4 | The haulier should be aware of the circumstances in which he ( or his debtor ) may be wound up on a voluntary basis and the circumstances in which his company ( or his debtor 's ) may be wound up by the court . |
| 5 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |
| 6 | Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region . |
| 7 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 8 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 10 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 11 | ( b ) It is usually drawn up on an annual basis by comparing the previous year 's expenditure and adding increments , or perhaps decrements. ( c ) There is a natural tendency , when dealing with inputs on an incremental basis , to favour existing programmes . |
| 12 | Private Roger Morrison 's body was washed up on a Morroccan beach 10 days ago after his speedboat had been fired on by local police . |
| 13 | Their bodies were later found washed up on a northern Natal beach close to the Mozambique border . |
| 14 | THE mutilated bodies of two British women tourists have been washed up on a deserted South African beach . |
| 15 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 16 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 17 | In the old days , Grandma was usually propped up on an upright chair and sat in the open door to enjoy the street scene . |
| 18 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 19 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 20 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 21 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 22 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 23 | Brought up on a tough council estate in Liverpool , Rachel — half English and half Indian — never knew her parents and lived with her grandparents in Speke . |
| 24 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 25 | McIlvanney was born in 1934 , and was brought up on a public housing estate in Kilmarnock , Ayrshire , in what he himself calls ‘ a left-wing family ’ . |
| 26 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 27 | The Rome Central Institute of Restoration and the Calabria Soprintendenza Archeologica have teamed up on a year-long project to remove the corrosive salts from the interiors of the statues . |
| 28 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 29 | Photos of Jack were shown , each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary . |
| 30 | In the fullerene-road mechanism , the metal ion would have to be taken up on an open cluster early on during growth , and the fullerene shell would then have to grow around the metal . |