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

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1 The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation .
2 From being despised , feeling inferior , wanting to be invisible , one is lifted up in full view on a cross of one 's own devising .
3 The ‘ magic realism ’ is conjured up with great skill and paints a vivid historical picture which few history books can better .
4 How different a picture is conjured up by this remark :
5 Drinking is caught up in this debate because of the health and social problems associated with alcohol abuse — even though these problems have probably always affected a small minority of people in most societies .
6 Between the channels , all of which will be ‘ swept ’ in the direction of flow , the chamber is built up with concrete benching so that any splashes are directed back into the channels .
7 The armour is built up from woven fabric supplied by Courtaulds Aerospace Performance Fabrics at Littleborough and impregnated with resin by Courtaulds Aerospace Electrical Insulation , of Runcorn .
8 A rich and powerful language is built up in this way .
9 It then erm is made up into this chart by somebody .
10 I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’
11 The junior U20 squad is made up of 16 year old Ballygowan student Neil Jackson ( Ballydrain ) , Padraig Mallon ( 18 ) from Newry , Dean Fisher ( Ballydrain ) and Paul Curran ( North Down ) .
12 The junior U20 squad is made up of 16 year old Ballygowan student Neil Jackson ( Ballydrain ) , Padraig Mallon ( 18 ) from Newry , Dean Fisher ( Ballydrain ) and Paul Curran ( North Down ) .
13 Which is made up of one consignment .
14 and then we have what we li call a floating week which is made up of five rest days , you can have them at any time yeah
15 The Pacific is unique in that it is made up of small island states with very limited resources and the way ahead is to work together .
16 Each notebook is made up of 256 spreadsheet pages and one Graphs page , which is page 257 .
17 Do n't faint , but most of the dust in your home is made up of flaked-off skin !
18 The other half per cent is made up of radioactive waste .
19 This Panel is made up of Social Work and Health staff who will decide if you should receive the Service .
20 The surface of the calyx is made up of closely-fitting lime plates , the stems and branches of bead-like discs of the same material .
21 According to the inductivist account of science , the secure basis on which the laws and theories that constitute science are built is made up of public observation statements rather than the private , subjective experiences of individual observers .
22 Most readers of this book aged over 30 will have been taught at school that the atom is made up of little billiard balls : in the centre there is the nucleus , made of biggish billiard balls called protons and neutrons ; around the nucleus travel very small billiard balls called electrons .
23 It is known as matrix modelling because it assumes that the price of a bond is made up from each component of relative value taken separately .
24 Now mum Nicola , who is fed up with 20-month-old Jasmin saying ‘ ayup ’ , wants to move from her housing association home in Buckland , Portsmouth .
25 The middle marker ( MM ) also operates on 75 Mhz and is sited up to one mile from the runway threshold .
26 Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution .
27 Our President , Dick , sits on Industrial Injury Advisory Council , and does his utmost , but as Dick knows only too well , that the system is tangled up in red tape , and also Tory ministers who are busy cutting costs at the expense of injured workers .
28 In general , the wider ( and often cheaper ) choice of credit types which is opened up by monthly-paid bank accounts seems to us to be , on its own , a big enough advantage to outweigh what is really the temporary awkwardness of change to a new set of habits .
29 Her hypothesis is ‘ that context-dependent speech is tied up with context-dependent thought , which in turn is the opposite of abstract thought ’ ( ibid . ) .
30 ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock .
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