Example sentences of "being [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 2 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 3 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 4 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 5 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 6 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |
| 7 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 8 | For instance , broad policies for assisting new enterprise may simply result in some businesses being thrust up onto the crowded platform at the expense of others pushed off it . |
| 9 | Ministers clearly recognise there is widespread concern about the outcome of the new assessment process , the wide variations appearing in eligibility criteria , and about the contracts being drawn up with the independent sector . |
| 10 | In view of the evaporation of the objections of the BMA and a large number of doctors to the Government 's policy , does my hon. Friend agree that the debate is being drawn up along the following lines , with the Confederation of Health Service Employees , the National Union of Public Employees and the Labour party on one side and the Government , the taxpayers and the patients on the other ? |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 12 | Now that Rune had taken charge of the whole operation , bringing in ‘ back-up ’ troops , her own futile efforts were being shown up for the amateur plan they were ! |
| 13 | Large numbers of drowned dolphins are being washed up on the south-western coasts of England , apparently as a result of being caught in fishing nets . |
| 14 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 15 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 16 | William will be taught the old values of royal duty as well as being brought up in the modern world , mainly by his mother . |
| 17 | A PAY intelligence unit is being set up by the Scottish health service to guide managers on how to reward their staff . |
| 18 | I enclose details of a new forum being set up by the National Rivers Authority to try to reconcile and manage the competing range of interests that value the river Wye as a resource . |
| 19 | In the absence of a theory of continental drift , the Darwinians were forced to postulate migration to explain similarities in the populations of widely separated continents — they could not envisage an original population being split up by the physical separation of the land mass it occupied . |
| 20 | Where possible , the more significant ‘ non-Leicestershire ’ cases are being followed up in the relevant local newspapers , and national events are being followed up in The Times . |
| 21 | It was such a hot day ; the air-conditioning had broken down , yet again , and the twins were nearly going mad at being cooped up in the hot apartment . |
| 22 | Development of substitutes for CFCs is being stepped up by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and manufacturers . |
| 23 | Grass-roots workers recognise the problems being stored up for the general election . |
| 24 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 25 | But for the local manufacturers , we pedal it and dress it up here before it is delivered , so that it 's then in its final beauty , ready for being cut up into the various items of saddlery . |
| 26 | Paul 's argument is that if you can get the word ‘ only ’ into your Christian thinking , then it will really help to sort out the dilemmas that were being thrown up by the different groups within the church . |
| 27 | This little corn mill was certainly still being worked up to the late 1920s . |
| 28 | A rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral destroyed a satellite being sent up by the public-broadcasting company , possibly wrecking its chances of starting to broadcast commercial high-definition television in November . |
| 29 | She remembered reading that all kinds of property , as well as building land in the Dordogne area , was being snapped up by the British and the Dutch . |