Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases may be transferred up , down and across the court system subject to certain criteria . |
| 2 | Public law cases may be transferred up , down and across the court system where this will avoid delay , facilitate consolidation or allow the case to be heard at an appropriate level . |
| 3 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 4 | Peripheral groups may be made up of employees or of workers bought in on a sub-contract basis . |
| 5 | Seeming contradictions can be explained in situations where conservation policies may be drawn up in some areas ( perhaps financed by foreign aid , and attached to prestigious foreign fellowships and enhanced salaries for senior officials ) — but in a neighbouring area a carte-blanche logging contract is offered to a transnational company . |
| 6 | Their jurisdiction should be raised from 40s to £10 ; similar courts should be set up in every county ; the jury should be reduced to four . |
| 7 | Existing hard surfaces should be broken up beforehand . |
| 8 | Environmental pollution through smoke , de-afforestation , the development of conurbations ( large built-up areas ) or the use of nuclear power and the disposal of its waste products must be weighed up by a country 's government ( and the world community ) against potential income growth . |
| 9 | Copies of the book will be required by all those connected with the survey and all copies must be kept up to date by the incorporation of any coding additions , new conventions and unresolved problems . |
| 10 | As we see it there are also potential problems in terms of the date on which accounts must be made up . |
| 11 | A number of accounts must be set up in this database . |
| 12 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 13 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 14 | Each branch of the fungus must be traced from its source to the growing tip , and finishes should be opened up to reveal timber 1/2m ( 1–1/2ft ) beyond the affected material . |
| 15 | The Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 required that the accounts of direct labour organizations should be made up of a balance sheet , a revenue account , and a statement of rate of return ; and that these accounts show a ‘ true and fair view ’ . |
| 16 | Veteran Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston said of The Jungle Book : ‘ Character relationships must be built up slowly through actions , expressions and emotions . |
| 17 | If primaries are ruled out , lists must be drawn up by delegates of the parties , best chosen by a postal ballot and assembled as is the usual West German practice in a nominating convention . |
| 18 | If the job is a newly created one then clear guidelines should be drawn up of what the candidate will be expected to do , what qualifications , skills , abilities and personal qualities they will need . |
| 19 | This table was made like a tray ; when lifted , its legs could be snapped up or snapped down — a solemn sort of conjuring trick which Twomey performed with quiet authority . |
| 20 | It accepted that some comprehensive schools could be set up , but on the whole endorsed the existing tripartite system , and indeed suggested further divisions within it ( and within further education ) . |
| 21 | Therefore I think it would be a better idea if units could be set up and the children could be taken out of an ordinary school for perhaps one or two or three years , according to how much time is required , where they could give the individual attention and the specialist teaching to help them to overcome this particular problem . |
| 22 | Under the bill , anyone who falsely accused fruit or vegetables of being tainted with dangerous preservatives or pesticides could be fined up to three times the value of lost product . |
| 23 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 24 | Muscles developed around them so that the front ends of the rods could be moved up and down . |
| 25 | Sequences of words would be flashed up on a VDU , so quickly that — in theory — they could only be perceived subliminally . |
| 26 | Occasionally , after a dance , they would decide to go swimming in the early hours of the morning , so all the cars would be lined up with their headlamps blazing to light up the pool . |
| 27 | the processing and transmission of information by offices will be speeded up considerably |
| 28 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 29 | The first trial units will be set up in 1994 , attached to the Moscow Military District and the Northern Fleet . |
| 30 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |