Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , instead of toying with a carrot and lettuce leaf , 30-year-old Julie tucks into a delicious , three-course meal at a smart London hotel , declining chocolates and coffee only because she 's given up caffeine . |
| 2 | ( Well , since she 's given up weather forecasting in favour of presenting The Gladiat-ors . ) |
| 3 | Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre . |
| 4 | In the process it 's picked up HaL Computer Systems Inc , the most famous of the no-product-yet companies , to stand up and say it was doing its own Version 9 implementation , claiming to be ‘ well under way . ’ |
| 5 | The result is made up eyebrows or lip lines that last for at least a year — but it does n't come cheap . |
| 6 | Ray Reynolds has lived in the area all his life , both his bungalow home and the 250 acre farm he 's built up bit by bit would disappear under the reservoir . |
| 7 | On our review model the tremolo has been set up with three springs instead of Stevie 's five , and the baseplate is kicked up way too high from the face of the body . |
| 8 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 9 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing the Met-does best is beat up blacks and sit in front of bloody computers planning how to crush the coming riots of Thatcher 's underclass . ’ |
| 11 | In Vietnam GI 's chalked up signs reading ‘ Kill a Gook for Calley ’ . |
| 12 | That 's lined up North , make sure that 's right on the angle you 're measuring , now it 's about there . |
| 13 | The contrasting commitment between a team needing points for survival and one , like Kelso , already safe has never been more obvious and Heriot 's ended up winners by 86-8 . |
| 14 | If you have a look at the sheet you can see there are six sections and then on the right hand side there are two columns , one is headed up pupil the other is headed up teacher . |
| 15 | If you have a look at the sheet you can see there are six sections and then on the right hand side there are two columns , one is headed up pupil the other is headed up teacher . |