Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 2 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 3 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 4 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 5 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 6 | That 's the real reason ye 're holed up here in the mountains … ’ |
| 7 | Many birds die and individuals are washed up on to the shore . |
| 8 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 9 | The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief . |
| 10 | The long , slender pelvic fins are drawn up flush with the underside of the body , while the pectoral fins lie flat against the sides . |
| 11 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 12 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 13 | A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state . |
| 14 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 15 | The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes . |
| 16 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 17 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 18 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 19 | The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information . |
| 20 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 21 | These rotary mowers ride on a cushion of air when in use and can be hung up out of the way afterwards . |
| 22 | Charged in 1861 with supervising the charters of peasant obligations which had to be drawn up immediately after the emancipation , in most cases they sanctioned charters from which the gentry profited . |
| 23 | Third , there is the issue of the party manifesto for a general election and the idea that this should no longer be drawn up just by the leader on the basis of informal consultations . |
| 24 | The ordinary annual grant for restoration will be used up partly by the Laboratorio del Restauro in Palazzo Barberini , which recently restored Correggio 's Borghese ‘ Danae ’ , and partly by the needs of the five other museums which the Soprintendenza is responsible for : the Gallery in Palazzo Barberini , the Spada Gallery , the Corsini Gallery , the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Borghese Gallery . |
| 25 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 26 | The chief specification is that corresponding entries from OED and the Supplement should be able to be called up together to the screen or other outputting device . |
| 27 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 28 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 29 | Within the PC environment there are at least four common resolutions plus dozens of hybrids which mean that the fonts have to be set up correctly for the display . |
| 30 | The Pre-Retirement Association ( address on page 155 ) runs day or weekend courses for the employees of large companies ; and as the PRA has a countrywide network of speakers , these can be set up anywhere in the UK in response to demand . |