Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 2 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 3 | Mr. Cousins argues that a farmer with 1,000 acres , of which 50 acres would be set-aside , would hardly notice eight acres given up to non-rotational set-aside . |
| 4 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 5 | Back in the days of bare-knuckle bouts the referee scratched a line in the dirt and fighters shaped up to each other by ‘ toeing ’ this line . |
| 6 | A syllabus , a methodology , a plan of work , an outline study drawn up by some central authority , no matter how enlightened , imposed upon teachers is to be rejected . |
| 7 | The women sat on a mastaba against a sunny wall with their legs drawn up into red velvet skirts . |
| 8 | The battle between graziers and agriculturists continued up to modern times , but in less dramatic wrangles between village councils , which preferred cultivators , and the larger owners who favoured the more reliable rents of the cattle and sheep men . |
| 9 | But Althusser 's example indicates that there can also be contradictions between aspects of one practice , such as the methods of production which are used in urban and in rural districts , between social groups , for example different factions of a ruling class , and between aspects of two societies , such as the contradictions thrown up by foreign policy . |
| 10 | Each diver kitted up with 470 cubic feet of air each in four tanks , two side mounted and two front mounted , breathing through Poseidon valves . |
| 11 | From October 1 1989 , the Tax Inspectorate will consider candidates aged up to 52 who want to train with pay as Tax Inspectors . |
| 12 | We 've already got a fabulous programme lined up for 1992 and we all look forward to seeing lots of you then . |
| 13 | We 'll just have lunch , and then I 'm sure you 've got a wonderful programme lined up for this afternoon ! ’ |
| 14 | Although dragged out at over two hours , this is certainly watchable on a trash level , although it 's essentially an adequately-acted dumb-ass melodrama dressed up with enormous operatic tat . |
| 15 | a fire must be kindled and the gasifier nursed up to full output . |
| 16 | There were pubs in London which had a clientèle made up of original skinheads , whose age tended to be above 25 , and at which none of the new boots and braces or plastic skins would be tolerated . |
| 17 | I get a bit fed up with that . |
| 18 | rather tired bit fed up with private medicine at the moment . |
| 19 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |
| 20 | On important archaeological sites torn up by windblown salvage operations were carried out . |
| 21 | And I chewed my lunchtime sandwich thoroughly , being careful not to get my trachea clogged up with cream cheese . |
| 22 | They can feel their petty lives caught up in great events . |
| 23 | And butchers next door where you know where shoe shop is on street , well grocers were there on that corner and th when we come here there were hams and bacons hung up outside all night . |
| 24 | I believe these checks and balances built up over many years are essential to the maintenance of true democracy in this country and I commend to Your Lordships Amendments five , eight and eleven for those reasons . |
| 25 | a handy refuge for many punters fed up with processed pop , but the indigenous musics of Zimbabwe , Soweto or Venezuela will never serve the same purpose as Gim me Shelter or Relax for a British , French or American listener . |
| 26 | For decades abortion was available virtually on demand , due to the liberal interpretation of a law drawn up in 1956 by Poland 's then Communist rulers . |
| 27 | To his list we could add attorneys and even local receivers of taxes , six of whom appear in a list of country bankers drawn up in 1784 . |
| 28 | A plan drawn up to this end by Foreign Ministers at a meeting on May 5 in Guatemala City was later embodied in the Tela agreement [ see below ] . |
| 29 | Action : Correct the errors noted up to this point , then run the scanner again . |
| 30 | When it becomes law , Scottish Natural Heritage will have to refer objections to proposed and existing SSSIs to yet another body , a new committee set up by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |