Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 2 | Leaving home , getting married , going on holiday , promotion at work , starting a family , all require certain familiar routines and rhythms to be given up in order to make the most of a new situation . |
| 3 | ‘ But really , I ought to be tucked up in bed now . |
| 4 | Every instant of her time from when she got back from work till it was time for Emily to be tucked up in bed was devoted exclusively to her precious little daughter . |
| 5 | Sleepy and satisfied , Emily was only too willing to be tucked up in bed , just after nine o'clock . |
| 6 | When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight . |
| 7 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 8 | Most of the village site has now been ploughed , and medieval potsherds can be picked up in abundance ; almost all the ridge and furrow has been levelled . |
| 9 | They are present in house dust ; they stick to clothing , carpets , towels and bedlinen ; they can also be picked up in garden soil , on unwashed vegetables and salads , or from contact with someone who already has worms . |
| 10 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 11 | If the share proceeds are less than that , the difference can be made up in cash . |
| 12 | ‘ You actually wanted to be hauled up in front of the stewards in Portman Square ? ’ |
| 13 | These will be drawn up in conjunction with local planning authorities with the aim of managing the countryside to develop sustainable agriculture , safeguard plant and animal wildlife , and preserve traditional landscape features , such as woods , hedgerows and dry-stone walls . |
| 14 | The group calls for a system of zoning to be drawn up in collaboration with the fishing industry . |
| 15 | This could be drawn up in consultation with the major users of such information . |
| 16 | Both teachers and the school librarian will be monitoring pupils ' responses to 1 ) information skills planning sheets 2 ) the keyword approach to identifying the purpose of , searching for and using information 3 ) using a microcomputer to search for information 4 ) worksheets on note taking , organizing and presenting information A report on the project will be drawn up in Term 3 . |
| 17 | Okay , and it needs to be opened up in someway , which sounds a bit drastic but is n't actually that bad . |
| 18 | It would certainly explain how you came to be washed up in Seal Haven . ’ |
| 19 | In the cyclic natural scheme of things some kind of decay is essential , otherwise not only would the earth be cluttered with the stems of most of the plants which have ever lived , but most of the world 's supply of carbon would be locked up in cellulose so that life could not be carried on . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 21 | One part , the part that writes , that creates something new , requires a protected private space , a ‘ dark backward abysm ’ out of which daydreams can be called up in security . |
| 22 | Between rulers and ruled he perceives ‘ an irreconcilable contest … which will never cease till either prerogative and privilege be swallowed up in freedom or liberty itself be led captive by prerogative ’ . |
| 23 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 24 | Dried leaves of the stuff lie in heaps on the floor of the open-air market , waiting to be bundled up in burlap sacks . |
| 25 | Children were to be brought up in accordance with Nature ; when describing the progress of little Basil Montagu in 1796 Dorothy says : |
| 26 | In fact when you introduced me , I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 'm going to be brought up in front of the assembly for some heinous crime and be humiliated . ’ |
| 27 | could be set up in excess of fifty thousand |
| 28 | The revision proposed that works councils should be set up in order to vest in the workers a measure of control as against the bureaucratic command of the central planning authority . |
| 29 | Additionally the following measures were agreed : ( i ) that a joint working party would be set up , charged with defining " political offences in the South African situation " and with advising on " mechanisms for dealing with the release of political prisoners and the granting of immunity " ; ( ii ) that " temporary immunity from prosecution for political offences " would be considered as a matter of urgency for the ANC 's NEC members and others , to enable them to return to the country without fear of prosecution ; ( iii ) that the government would " review existing security legislation to bring it into line with the new dynamic situation developing in South Africa in order to ensure normal and free political activities " ; ( iv ) that the government would work towards the lifting of the state of emergency ; ( v ) that efficient channels of communication between the government and the ANC would be set up in order to curb violence and intimidation from whatever quarter . |
| 30 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |