Example sentences of "is [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 3 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 4 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 5 | The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne . |
| 6 | The knot of hair at the back of the neck is , in some of the paintings , incorporated in an almost full-face view , and the back of the shoulder is tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 7 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 8 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 9 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 10 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 11 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 12 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 13 | As the ribber needle moves back , the stitch on it comes over the latch of the ribber needle and is picked up by the transfer needle . |
| 14 | The paint is picked up by the texture of the paper and the previous layers of paint . |
| 15 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
| 16 | The reaction is speeded up by the presence of enzymes , hence the name enzymic browning . |
| 17 | A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT . |
| 18 | In the seemingly endless , and to male ears repetitive , chatter that goes on among women … a massive and encyclopaedic confidence is built up in the gossipers … gossip serves exactly the same grooming functions for the women as poker for the men … |
| 19 | The subject class is made up of the majority of the population whereas the ruling or dominant class forms a minority . |
| 20 | Another avid audience is made up of the enzymes which add phosphate groups to proteins , some of which help in the production of impulses . |
| 21 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 22 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 23 | Each rhodopsin molecule is made up of the aldehyde part of the vitamin A molecule and a protein . |
| 24 | The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles . |
| 25 | Ouija is made up of the French and German words for ‘ yes ’ , and this would suggest that it was originally an ‘ answering machine ’ for the spirits of the board . |
| 26 | In a many-to-many binary relationship , the relationship becomes a member record , its key is made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and if the entity is the carrier of attributes , these become fields of that record . |
| 27 | The former is made up of the utilities of the various classes or groups in society , while the latter is the utility of the community as such , discussed by Pareto in terms of maximisation of national military and political power . |
| 28 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 29 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 30 | The larger part is made up by the host of specialised equipments that such a frigate contains . |