Example sentences of "be [verb] up during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 2 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 3 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 4 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 5 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 6 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 7 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 8 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 9 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 11 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 12 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |