Example sentences of "be [verb] up [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 2 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 3 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 4 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 5 | After cutting the material is passed through to the machining room where the sails are sewn up and the hanks etc. are put on . |
| 6 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 7 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 8 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 9 | This has been changing , as more work is done on the Athenian Council ( Boule ) of 500 members , lists of whom have been turning up since the Americans began to excavate the agora in the 1930s . |
| 10 | MIPS ' ACE liaison officer and vice president of software technology , Larry Weber , said the sixteen companies on the board wo n't be sent their third-quarter bills until after all the MIPS-SGI merger details are cleaned up and the need for these funds is reassessed . |
| 11 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 12 | Days Mill , in its diminished form , has now been swallowed up as the town of Nailsworth has expanded around it . |
| 13 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 14 | There is no way that the repairs will be completed on time , but we have been assured that the hall will be patched up and the festival will be running as planned . ’ |
| 15 | Expropriations were to be speeded up and the land settlements were to become new reform units , with wider criteria for membership , thus increasing the number of beneficiaries . |
| 16 | Category A debt 's interest will be paid on time with the principal repaid as cash comes in ; interest on B debt will be rolled up and the capital not repaid until all A debt is redeemed . |
| 17 | It is flown there as the alternative to the massive O-dako or rectangular Edo kites , largely because its three-spar construction enables it to be rolled up when the spine is removed . |
| 18 | Finally , you can apply to have your debtor made bankrupt or , if a company , to be wound up if the amount you are owed is not paid to you . |
| 19 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 20 | It happened at New York 's Museum of Natural History in 1976 , and the experiments had to be wound up because the funding stopped . |
| 21 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 22 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 23 | He was the inventor of water pick-up troughs laid between the rails , whereby a scoop lowered into the trough from the locomotive or tender allowed additional water to be picked up whilst the train was running , thus making possible much longer non-stop runs . |
| 24 | As the course lengthens the bed of the distributary will be built up and the situation may arise where a levee is breached and a new shorter course to the sea made available . |
| 25 | It was found later that if bore holes were sunk into the deposits and water circulated in them , the solution could be pumped up and the salt extracted by evaporation , and this is what is done at Marston ( q.v . ) . |
| 26 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 27 | Also , bear in mind that for the single horse owner a bag of coarse mix will be used up while the feed still retains its value . |
| 28 | It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal . |
| 29 | Therefore I think it would be a better idea if units could be set up and the children could be taken out of an ordinary school for perhaps one or two or three years , according to how much time is required , where they could give the individual attention and the specialist teaching to help them to overcome this particular problem . |
| 30 | Debate continues on who should pay the rent for laboratories to be set up if the WIPers are taken on . |