Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | that the swimming pool was being filled up in the |
| 2 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 3 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 4 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 5 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 6 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 7 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 8 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 9 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 10 | were they being transmit , they were n't being picked up from the U S A were they ? |
| 11 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 12 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 13 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 14 | She had an impression of being lifted up from the bed — she had cried out in agony , feeling as if she would break in half — and laid upon a stretcher . |
| 15 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 16 | Basrah had a hard war , first by being caught up on the fringes of routine military engagements and later by itself becoming a direct target for bombardment . |
| 17 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 18 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |
| 19 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 20 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 21 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |
| 22 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 23 | The banks are often built up in this manner above the level of the surrounding marsh , rather like the levees of a meandering river being built up above the level of the floodplain . |
| 24 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 25 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 26 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 27 | Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 . |
| 28 | For instance , broad policies for assisting new enterprise may simply result in some businesses being thrust up onto the crowded platform at the expense of others pushed off it . |
| 29 | The experience gained here and in other countries is now being written up in the form of guide lines for future motorcycle users . |
| 30 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |