Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 3 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 4 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 5 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 6 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 7 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 8 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 9 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 10 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 11 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 12 | The next triplet of bases in the message ( AAG in the figure ) then pairs with a tRNA carrying the anticodon UUC , and the amino acid lysine ; thus the second amino acid of the protein , namely lysine , is lined up with the first . |
| 13 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 14 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 15 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 18 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 19 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 20 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 21 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 22 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |