Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 3 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 4 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 5 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 6 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 7 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 8 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 9 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 10 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 11 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 12 | Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays . |
| 13 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 14 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 15 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 16 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 17 | The report warns service providers against offering global ‘ one-stop shopping ’ services , as they may then find that the more attractive routes or services are picked up by other types of provider with cheaper offerings . |
| 18 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 19 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 20 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 21 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 22 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 23 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 24 | In some circumstances the supervisor is in a position to visit his own views about policy and practice onto his junior colleagues , since he is the channel through which information and recommendations are transmitted up to senior staff and policy directives are funnelled down . |
| 25 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 26 | I really am fed up with other people 's old hat views about abseiling . |
| 27 | I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun . |
| 28 | Once again , we shall win marginal seats in Lambeth , Haringey , Lewisham and Waltham Forest , where people are fed up with Labour government . |
| 29 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 30 | Ordinary run-of-the-mill players are built up into footballing geniuses . |