Example sentences of "is [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 .
2 Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 .
3 Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 .
4 As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder .
5 Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay .
6 Indeed , she believes that she is caught up in a bureaucratic cage , the different branches of the council being in league with local and national branches of other sections of the state apparatus .
7 There is now a widespread view that trade unionism is caught up in a fundamental transformation .
8 What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women .
9 So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear .
10 The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story .
11 He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives .
12 Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence .
13 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
14 What has to be opened up is the unsupervised way in which internationally and nationally the sum of all our communications is sucked up into the electronic vacuum cleaner that is Cheltenham
15 Later study will fill in the spaces with key words of lesser rank , until the whole topic is built up into a coherent and connected body of knowledge .
16 One is built up around a double crochet ring , giving six two-chain loops and into these loops are worked about six or seven trebles each .
17 It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences .
18 From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries .
19 A feeling of belonging to a community , or as it has been described here , of citizenship , is built up from a whole range of social , economic and psychological components .
20 The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral .
21 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 .
22 Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action .
23 The marginal platform of the Z1 Carbonate is made up of a lower unit of light-coloured , bioturbated and fossiliferous carbonate mudstones , and an upper unit of reefs which pass laterally into oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 7 ) .
24 The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable .
25 The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 .
26 A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ .
27 This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length .
28 The general solution of the form used in eqn ( 10.6 ) is made up of a linear combination of the two orthogonal states : and where φ is an arbitrary
29 ‘ So , ’ he continued , ‘ each pulse of light is made up of a short series of humps and dips — a bit like the water ripples you get when you drop the soap into the bath .
30 I mean if you think that an atom is , as we said , typically ten to the minus eight of a centimetre , then a nucleus is typically ten to the minus twelve of a centimetre , so that 's four orders of magnitude down , so the nucleus itself , if you scaled the whole thing down by a factor of ten to the four , the neucleus itself again is made up of a fair amount of free space and loss of particles inside it .
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