Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 3 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 6 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 7 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 8 | ALL major social security benefits are to go up by 3.6 per cent in line with inflation from next April . |
| 9 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 10 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 11 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 17 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 18 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 21 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 22 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 23 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |
| 24 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 25 | Learning , singing , and praying are rolled up into one : catechesis , as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters . |
| 26 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 27 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sometimes you shout out the names of hon. Members who are caught up in British Rail delays . |
| 30 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |