Example sentences of "[prep] being [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allen Wood explains that this is because a fellow amateur had ended up in trouble after being written up last year in the New York Times . |
| 2 | ‘ It is preferable to the alternative of being locked up twenty-three hours out of twenty-four , ’ Merrick echoed . |
| 3 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 4 | Russell ( 1986 ) prefers a model in which mineralising fluids were generated by Carboniferous seawater penetrating , and reacting with , the underlying Caledonian basement to increasing depths ( up to 10 km ) under a normal geothermal gradient during basin extension before being discharged up listric faults . |
| 5 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |