Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bone assemblages may build up in such cases because of the favoured use of particular parts of the cave for year after year , and similar large accumulations of bat skeletons may also build up beneath favoured roosting sites in caves or hollow trees . |
| 2 | Thirdly , and this is the most important thing , we must take up in some detail the matter of interpretation — what observed differences mean . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is quite outrageous that people should stand up in this Chamber and attack the character of someone who is not here to defend himself ? |
| 4 | The seeds should come up in neat , well-spaced rows , and be easier to prick out than thickly sown clusters . |
| 5 | Christmas in the Scrubs ought to crop up in some colour magazine , Home Office permitting . |
| 6 | It could be a hazard only where it might build up in poorly ventilated buildings . |
| 7 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 8 | It 's the alembick of the age — one that might blow up in all our faces , and yet … |
| 9 | He feared it might end up in deep humiliation . |
| 10 | It 's just conceivable that room might pop up in some other picture some day . ’ |
| 11 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 12 | It was , then , in a context such as this that a Times correspondent could sum up in 1937 an entirely familiar series of complaints about mounting crime and dwindling authority : . |
| 13 | Thought they could stand up in full view in a club crammed with people , execute the man . |
| 14 | Banned from the dressingroom areas and the touchline , he could turn up in any number of disguises from hot-pie salesman to unhelpful steward . |
| 15 | He used to dress up in this enormous chicken 's costume and clown around in front of the audience as a kind of warm-up act . |
| 16 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 17 | Unless some of those cripples get well we may end up in midtable anonymity by May . |
| 18 | In Birmingham , Stuart Tullah of Collins Son & Harvey , which has a large rental book says : ‘ People faced with taking another 12-month tenancy now are afraid prices may go up in that time . ’ |
| 19 | His plan would allow each country a ‘ quota ’ until the end of the next century — a quota Britain would use up in 42 years at its present rate of emissions . |
| 20 | Easier to imagine him here , thinking : ‘ Is it worth it ? ’ , for if he rolled his rock up this slope he would come to a heap of rubbish — and when it rolled back it would end up in another even bigger heap . |
| 21 | Rather than cutting takings , profits would go up in well-run trouble-free bars which attracted more customers , she argued . |
| 22 | Maybe she thought he would get up in some drunken stupor and ravish her . |
| 23 | With their new signing on show and wins at Stockport and West Brom behind them , Pool will line up in buoyant mood against their relegation-threatened local rivals tomorrow . |
| 24 | It may be said that in some cases , at least , such a tendency will show up in that species merely as itself — that is to say , as a merely biological character of that species . |
| 25 | The best-selling book that will end up in 400,000 Christmas stockings this week was the brainchild of Guinness chief executive Sir Hugh Beaver and first published in 1955 , a time when the brewery owned 84,382 pubs in Britain . |
| 26 | As stated above , if an individual bank creates loans , some of the new deposits will end up in different banks . |
| 27 | My fourth point is that some of you may be persuaded to regard as a good reason for non-intervention the fact that the child , if it survives , will so disrupt its parents ' lives as to destroy the marriage , or will end up in some institution , in a form of living death . |
| 28 | Both Eagles and Leigh will go up in any event if Oldham lose at Ryedale York . |
| 29 | This will come up in any other business . |
| 30 | Unemployment is rising , but inflation is falling and interest rates with it , so the economy will pick up in due course . |