Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training .
2 ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’
3 The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults .
4 Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas .
5 Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure .
6 Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure .
7 With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas .
8 Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon .
9 The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’
10 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
11 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
12 That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house .
13 Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological .
14 The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb .
15 Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom .
16 The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems .
17 Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham .
18 The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another .
19 The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September .
20 The steady increase in complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's Report has continued , 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September .
21 The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed .
22 A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal .
23 She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk .
24 ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again .
25 Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result .
26 Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ .
27 The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery .
28 If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit .
29 Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' .
30 It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects .
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