Example sentences of "be [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that script has been built up over twenty years experience . |
| 2 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 3 | The picture painted by the Survey is one of a book provision system which is capable of coping remarkably well with the complexities of a Library whose collections have been built up over three centuries : a high proportion of requests are satisfied ; the great majority of items are delivered to readers without difficulty ; and the time taken for most items to be delivered is not only comparatively short , but , despite the fluctuating level of demand for printed books , shows little variation . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that why you 're using up so much energy now ? ’ |
| 5 | More than four hundred homes are going up over three years , the problem of teenage boredom could therefore worsen . |
| 6 | A strategy is to be drawn up so environmental issues are given equal priority , and to ensure the council 's response is consistent . |
| 7 | But I 'm going up anyway next time . |
| 8 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 9 | It can be called up fro vast databases , altered … what if … ? |
| 10 | Following his election as President of the Council for National Parks , Chris Bonington called for all the national parks to be set up as separate authorities as soon as possible , in line with the Government 's manifesto promise . |
| 11 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 12 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 13 | In these circumstances , it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day . |
| 14 | Nearly £38m is on offer , to be divided up over five years . |
| 15 | No ; I am taking up too much time already . |
| 16 | In the city they are cooped up together all day in an apartment . |
| 17 | The crew were picked up later that day . |
| 18 | Mr Cordial has been a member of the health authority since 1990 when he decided his previous duties with Yorkshire Regional Health Authority were taking up too much time travelling from his home in Barton . |
| 19 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 20 | Guidelines for provisioning ( hitherto unknown in the industry ) were tightened up again this autumn for the second year in succession . |
| 21 | Well my head man 's told me that everything 's okay and he 's eat up well this morning and , and , he 's doing well . |
| 22 | ‘ He gets stuck in — and that 's probably why he 's picked up so many knocks down the years . |
| 23 | The aim is to set up over 50 restaurants within the next five years and to increase to over 10O within 10 years . |
| 24 | Whereas if you go for a degree of inequality within the countryside , A you will have , you might get the same , same tax yield because you , you have a higher rate of tax on the rich and their revenue 's going up so that tax revenue will increase |
| 25 | If they find that one person or company is buying up too many newspapers — as has happened in Britain , for example — the Commission can stop that process , Mr Jayaweera said . |
| 26 | ours basically what you wa what you , what is set up there basic bar meals but i you can have it in the restaurant if you want . |
| 27 | Robert 's is gone up over five pounds , theirs is a different kind of a house you see a parlour type |
| 28 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 29 | It was none too soon ; smoke-grey clouds scurried across the sky and even in the harbour the wind was whipping up little white-topped waves . |
| 30 | Yet even when she had been paid he would still have about double his normal wage — ten shillings , or even less in this village when the contract was drawn up about eighty years ago ; and there were the allowances in addition . |