Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The certificate of membership remains the property of the HCIMA and must be given up on resignation . |
| 2 | The elderly people may have a range of social connections which would understandably be given up with reluctance and they often do not at that stage need to give up their home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Small sized prey is always treated this way , but larger prey ( large in relation to the size of the owl ) may be broken up before ingestion in the same way as for diurnal raptors , with comparable levels of breakage . |
| 6 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 7 | Children … are not vessels waiting to be filled up with knowledge , but rather active seekers of solutions to problems . |
| 8 | It 's gon na be filled up with water . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 10 | ‘ But really , I ought to be tucked up in bed now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sleepy and satisfied , Emily was only too willing to be tucked up in bed , just after nine o'clock . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The re-hydration process can be speeded up by heating . |
| 15 | Across the 30 pages of the booklet are details of ‘ ppe for use in a very dangerous situation ’ ( e.g. facing Waqar Younis ) , ‘ ppe which may be caught up during use ’ ( which requires the equipment to have an ‘ appropriate resistance threshold above which a constituent part will break and eliminate the danger ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they may be booked up for Christmas day . |
| 18 | It works in conjunction with existing professional indemnity insurance and enables estates to be wound up without delay . |
| 19 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 20 | In this judgment I shall use the expression ‘ unregistered company ’ to mean any company which is liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 . |
| 21 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 22 | In my judgment , there are indications that the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally apply both to companies formed and registered under the Companies Acts and to unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V. The starting point is that the legislative concept of administrative receiver , and the statutory scheme of the provisions relating to his qualifications , functions , powers and duties , all rest on a contractual base , namely , a receiver appointed by or on behalf of debenture holders under a debenture secured by a floating charge . |
| 23 | ‘ In this section — … ‘ company ’ means a company within the meaning given by section 735(1) of the Companies Act or a company which may be wound up under Part V of this Act ( unregistered companies ) ; … |
| 24 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 25 | The definition of ‘ company ’ in section 22(2) ( b ) of that Act includes any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . |
| 26 | The question is whether grammar ought to be taught as a separate formal study , like harmony or counterpoint , or whether a teacher can assume that it will be picked up through practice . |
| 27 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 28 | First you will be picked up from home in a luxury stretch limo courtesy of Elegance Limousines of Waterloo . |
| 29 | Therefore they can not be picked up from water supplied , swimming pools , buildings or factories . |
| 30 | You will be picked up from school by Marjorie or me or your mother or all three of us from now on. , |