Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 3 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 4 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 5 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 7 | Most of the technology going into this third snapshot will be wrapped up in the second quarter , according to business area manager Jon Gossels . |
| 8 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 9 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 10 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 11 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 12 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 13 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 14 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 15 | Brought up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church he would later be expelled and join the Branch Davidians . |
| 16 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 17 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 18 | These matters are taken up in the next chapter . |
| 19 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 20 | As most of these zones are in Third World countries , these issues will be taken up in the next chapter . |
| 21 | The story is taken up in the next extract : |
| 22 | This theme will be taken up in the next section . |
| 23 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 24 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 25 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |