Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sure that I should be raking up all this , but in a way it is related to Luke 's attitude towards Elise , and you did ask … |
| 3 | Instead of this line , which involved the construction of a tunnel , 48 chains long , under the rising ground near Foxton , into the Welland Valley , Barnes recommended boldly that the canal should be raised up six locks immediately , a sharp climb of 75 feet . |
| 4 | They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet . |
| 5 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 6 | Apart from that , my only quarrel with the production of the book is a number of printing errors , which should be picked up prior to a second edition . |
| 7 | Instead of closing the door o to its union supporters , Labour should be opening up new ways in . |
| 8 | Maybe there should be a rule if Irish and English people had children they should be brought up Irish — the way the Catholic Church used to insist on the children of Catholics and Protestants being brought up Catholic . |
| 9 | Accepting that the body clock is slow to adjust to a time-zone transition , our aim must be to speed up this adjustment . |
| 10 | If your weight remains constant you must be using up all your calories , but if you are gaining weight then some of the calories you consume are being stored as fat . |
| 11 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 12 | And that 's when he said he said I 'll be going up one night when it 's dark he said . |
| 13 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 14 | Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away ! |
| 15 | It would also be evaluated by the staff group , and the information passed on to colleagues who may be taking up similar activities the following year . |
| 16 | Once manufactured and distributed , the material may always find its way to the hands of others who are less equable , so that its effect may be to stir up racial hatred indirectly . |
| 17 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 18 | And the last thing in the world you 'd want would be to give up this opportunity Monsieur Verveine has given you . |
| 19 | Chairman Alan Noble said a short-list would be drawn up this week . |
| 20 | Dario Gradi , Crewe 's manager thought White would be playing up front , and prepared his defence for that . |
| 21 | No this would , this would be mixing up two very different things . |
| 22 | I shall be following up this survey . ’ |
| 23 | The list for the Labour Group will be made up each Friday morning and passed to Jean Speedie by lunchtime . |
| 24 | The next step will be to set up collaborative research projects , under the Science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 25 | He will be supported up front by Hamburg 's Jan Furtok and the tousle-haired Roman Kosecki , a lively substitute at Wembley who , like his captain , Dariusz Wdowczyk , will be hoping to impress British talent spotters . |
| 26 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 27 | An imaginative PRO or press officer will be thinking up new and useful angles for in-depth feature material suitable for specific programmes or publications and will be spending a good proportion of his or her time selling them . |
| 28 | Each of these matters will be taken up later but first we need to outline the growth in awareness of the organisational needs of local authorities . |
| 29 | Wiltshire County Council Highways department have been involved in the planning of this project and will be putting up advanced warning signs , highlighting alternative routes for light traffic . |
| 30 | The government will be putting up 50 per cent of the cost of commercial projects in the four key areas , although academic work will be fully funded by the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) . |