Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 2 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 3 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 4 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 5 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 6 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |