Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind is whistling up this and within seconds my face is frozen . |
| 2 | The big digger is holding up all the traffic . |
| 3 | Blood is made up millions of cells . |
| 4 | By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future . |
| 5 | His girlfriend was chatting up some big-shot drama critic at the time as well . |
| 6 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 7 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 8 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 9 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 10 | It was raining , his cowl was drawn up close . |
| 11 | A number of places in the faculty are taken up each year by students who are already , or are about to become , graduates in other disciplines . |
| 12 | The next column is going up 1 , 3 , 5 so the next will be 7 and the £s are going up in ones . |
| 13 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 14 | But the corridor is lit up both ways . |
| 15 | Since it carries the sole generator ( and hydraulic pump ) the left engine is fired up first . |
| 16 | The project has decimated the Amazon forest and led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians since their habitat was opened up 10 years ago . |
| 17 | Topaz was brought up short . |
| 18 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 19 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 20 | My Lords , I took the opportunity knowing this question was coming up last Friday to spend an entire morning on the site in the building |
| 21 | General Accident is putting up 500,000 for research on the psychology of the road user . |
| 22 | What one has to do where this conflict is between a welfare aim and a conservation aim is to weigh up all the evidence carefully and decide what is , morally , the right thing to do . |
| 23 | The aim is to open up higher education to under-represented groups through provision which offers enhanced support plus guaranteed further training at the end of one year . |
| 24 | through her nose , but , so there must of been , she 's alright but her nose is blocked up all the time |
| 25 | Your daddy 's giving up important business . |
| 26 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 27 | An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing , sitting or walking . |
| 28 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 29 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 30 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |