Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [be] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent policy statement from the AUT , Investing in the future : research and development in the universities , says that the overhead costs of research projects funded by government departments , research councils , industry and other bodies , are not being properly met and so these projects are eating up funds allocated by the Universities Funding Council . |
| 2 | These companies are buying up genes , storing them in gene banks and patenting them . |
| 3 | As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it . |
| 4 | In later years many critics were to take up Lorentz 's implication that in essence I am a Fugitive was a conventional melodrama centred on a romantic hero . |
| 5 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 6 | She also suggests that this mechanism was reversed in the 1970s , by which time more mothers were taking up employment between births , which would be likely to encourage longer gaps between babies . |