Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] up on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 2 | This group also had to be made up on strict equal-opportunities lines , with the requisite number of minorities and women . |
| 3 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 4 | The bird 's gon na have to be ended up on a Sunday dinner somewhere in n it ? |
| 5 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 6 | When the statement had been issued , Mr Telford allowed his pistol to be hauled up on a rope . |
| 7 | Nick points are often difficult to distinguish from breaks of slope caused by hard bands of rock , especially as nick points will tend to be held up on such hard beds through the difficulty of eroding resistant rock . |
| 8 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 9 | It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March . |
| 10 | These islands are rapidly broken up by wind and waves , but the pumice fragments may be carried thousands of kilometres , to be washed up on some distant coral strand . |
| 11 | To be brought up on covered pitches only is like learning English without a concurrent basic grounding in Latin . |
| 12 | Having left her bastard to be brought up on charity she had then schemed to stay near it . |
| 13 | In the fullerene-road mechanism , the metal ion would have to be taken up on an open cluster early on during growth , and the fullerene shell would then have to grow around the metal . |
| 14 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 15 | Each token , a seal of approval awarded by the minister to those of whom he approved morally that week , had to be handed up on Sunday ; those without tokens could not receive the sacrament . |
| 16 | Ramsay was interested to note , in the passing , how as a couple of boats entered the harbour ahead of them from the fishing , under the bridge between the two outermost towers , they each provided a basket of new-caught fish to be hoisted up on ropes to men on the bridge , this seemingly how they paid their rents and harbour dues to their lord . |
| 17 | 3.1.5 to take schedules or inventories of fixtures and other items to be yielded up on the expiry of the Term and |
| 18 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 19 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 20 | The press played down these reverses , and they paled into insignificance when in spring 1943 word spread that a prisoner of-war camp was going to be set up on the outskirts of Fontanellato . |
| 21 | Models enable complex relationships to be set up on the computer in numerical form rather than in the form of subjective statements . |
| 22 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 23 | I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross just as that brass serpent was put on a pole in the camp of , in the middle of Israel , of the , of the camp there in the er , there in the wilderness . |
| 24 | And the only way you can be born again is by looking to me , cos I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross for your salvation . |
| 25 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 26 | He says I 'm gon na be lifted up on the cross . |
| 27 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |