Example sentences of "be [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strategy is to be drawn up so environmental issues are given equal priority , and to ensure the council 's response is consistent . |
| 2 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 3 | It can be called up fro vast databases , altered … what if … ? |
| 4 | Following his election as President of the Council for National Parks , Chris Bonington called for all the national parks to be set up as separate authorities as soon as possible , in line with the Government 's manifesto promise . |
| 5 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 6 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day . |
| 8 | Nearly £38m is on offer , to be divided up over five years . |