Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both guitars have necks that are properly set to line up with the top of the bridges , and which are set up to give the correct amount of neck relief . |
| 2 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 3 | McGrath admitted that his long-term knee problems , which have resulted in eight operations , are finally beginning to catch up with him . |
| 4 | We are not expecting to come up with a definitive plan to seize power ! ! but rather to begin to discuss some of the issues which are reducing the impact we are having . |
| 5 | We can not have a fair society , we can not have equality , West Belfast can not be working when the women of West Belfast are treated in that way — and when the women do stand up and fight and say ‘ we are not going to put up with this any more ’ , what happens is they then become threatened by the privatisation of their jobs . |
| 6 | few well-laid plans survive after the initial exchange of fire , and our famous Gurkha insurgents are not going to give up without one of their renowned fights . |
| 7 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 8 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 9 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 10 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 11 | Under the regulations here they 're only allowed to pay up to 80 per cent of your salary from a contributory scheme . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better put on one of my tracksuits , we 're not meant to go up to your room until they 've sent someone to inspect it or something , ’ she called on her way to the kitchen . |
| 13 | We 're not going to stop buying your records ( always , always the cop-out — IM ) but we 're not going to put up with your childish behaviour forever . |
| 14 | Well , I 've spoken about how we remember you but I know you have far more memories of being here those years ago and I know you 're really itching to get up off your seats and go and have a good look round to see where you were stationed and if it 's at all possible to see the huts , the billets or anything where you were . |
| 15 | English winemakers are always having to put up with this kind of jibe , despite possessing a viticultural heritage which dates back to the Romans . |
| 16 | That choice made , they are further asked to choose up to 12 individual modules . |
| 17 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 18 | He deplored the prevailing state of education — " many deaf and dumb children are still allowed to grow up without receiving any education whatever " — , criticised such educational provision as existed and advocated universal state education , the training of specially qualified and adequately remunerated teachers and the adoption of the combined system . |
| 19 | We defined the model and we solved a generation ago many of the technology issues surrounding client server such as and so on that erm other software suppliers are now pushing to catch up on . |
| 20 | So too has Mexico , where maquiladora enterprises are now permitted to sell up to 20 per cent locally under some conditions . |
| 21 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 22 | I suffered six years of mediocrity under Terry Neill , and I 'm not going to put up with it again . |
| 23 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not going to end up like them , ’ said Camille . |
| 25 | Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I thought we were all going to end up in some manky frog clink . ’ |
| 27 | The translations were not the only technical difficulty : there were only two shorthand writers in the court and they were hard pressed to keep up with the proceedings , causing the court to be adjourned more than once so that they could transcribe their notes . |
| 28 | As a result , British films were sometimes forced to wait up to 18 months to secure a release . |
| 29 | Traffic 's slowly beginning to ease up on all major routes coming out of Oxford , Abingdon and Aylesbury and no major problems to report in the centres either . |
| 30 | M4 , that 's pretty busy too , although traffic is slowly starting to ease up along there . |