Example sentences of "who [be] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 2 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 3 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 4 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 5 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |