Example sentences of "it be [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 2 | A whole orange = 100% ( that is , it 's made up of 100 parts ) A whole orange cut into two equal parts becomes two lots of 50 parts . |
| 3 | A rainbow seems like a miracle — it appears out of no-where , it forms a perfect arc — it 's made up of beautiful colours , always the same ones in just the same order — and it always mysteriously disappears . |
| 4 | It 's blown up into some kind of news story , so I better check the bulletins . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is the sack , Sir , even though it 's dressed up in fine words . ’ |
| 6 | It 's lined up with that lamp over there on the other wall , ’ said Dick . |
| 7 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 8 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Nottingham news it 's coming up to five past one . |
| 9 | Again , some feedback on the flip chart erm let's give you fifteen minutes for that so it 's coming up to five past twenty past |
| 10 | I mean it 's coming up to twenty past |
| 11 | A real den of iniquity it 's divided up into several little catacombs . |
| 12 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 13 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 14 | In nature it 's backed up by waterproof animal oils — Nikwax use TX10i . |
| 15 | If a book or manuscript is ‘ illuminated ’ it is lit up with hand-painted initial words , capital letters and borders in colours , gold and silver . |
| 16 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 17 | Rather it is bound up with all life 's activities whether they be social , political or economic , and it can not be divorced from morality . |
| 18 | The full course last from January to November 1993 , but it is made up of six separate units . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is made up of volcanic formations deposited in a north-west/south-east direction , the plateau of Paúl da Serra being the main core . |
| 21 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 22 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 23 | Public opinion is not just one view held by society , it is made up of many positive and negative opinions by individuals and groups throughout the country . |
| 24 | It is made up of coeval ignimbrites ( K/Ar date 4.65–6.7 Myr , from five dates over a 50-km section ) and a large batholith containing a variety of rock types but dominated by granite ( SiO 2 70% ) with an 40 Ar/ 36 Ar age of 5.180.05Myr . |
| 25 | It is made up of three cylinders , two corpora cavernosa and one corpus spongiosum . |
| 26 | Analysis shows it is made up of 43 per cent sugar . |
| 27 | Here , it is made up of light-coloured and dolomitised carbonate mudstones , interbedded with thin layers of laminated stromatolites ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 28 | There is , of course , a legal way to get works of art out of Russia , but it is tied up in red tape . |
| 29 | contribution , even though it is costing up to two and a half times more to collect than the revenue raised . |
| 30 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |