Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present challenge for development communicators is how to counter the negative reactions when ‘ women 's issues ’ are brought up at national or international development discussions . |
| 2 | Terminals need to be tight if good contact is to be maintained , abut if they are very tight they may distort or even break if they are pulled up at one end to remove them . |
| 3 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 4 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 5 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 6 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 7 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 8 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 9 | Special post boxes will be set up at each walk to receive the postcards . |
| 10 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 11 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 12 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 13 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 14 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 15 | ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club . |
| 16 | Numerous new bolt routes have recently been put up at all grades in the Dundee quarries which is acceptable within the policy , while the bolts on Lower Cave Creg , Dunkeld , are clearly not . |
| 17 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 18 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 19 | There is little comfort in being woken up at three in the morning by a fire engine proceeding to a fire . |
| 20 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 21 | Fencing and advisory signs were put up at seven Darlington play areas , which were also provided with dog faeces bins . |
| 22 | Signs were put up at both ends . |
| 23 | At Bridgend Hotel everything was first class grub — rooms — surroundings , but we were knocked up at five o'clock next morning to start by coach at six for Port Ellen in the south of Islay , where we were to join the steamer at half past eight to return home . |
| 24 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 25 | Do n't tell me something 's turned up at this stage to stop Cris getting away ? ’ |
| 26 | With the former rental is set up at such a rate that the full cost of the equipment is recovered plus a return , whilst with the latter the contract is shorter and the same equipment may be leased to a number of lessees . |
| 27 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 28 | And as if the elements were ganging up on defenceless human beings , half the neighbourhood around the bridge was woken up at 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday , 10 March by shouts of ‘ Fire ! ’ as a stable next to Sheppards ' workshops went up in flames . |
| 29 | Plainclothes officers posed as buyers and round-the-clock surveillance was kept up at several addresses . |