Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 2 | Crouched over the end of the table , a boy was heaving up blood — a hideous red pool , soaking into the bare boards of the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 4 | A company is stepping up trials of a new drug aimed at stopping the spread of AIDS . |
| 5 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |