Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 2 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 3 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 4 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 5 | I want to consider whether the way in which environmental impact assessments are drawn up at the moment is satisfactory . |
| 6 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 7 | Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape . |
| 8 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 9 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 10 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 11 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 12 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 13 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 14 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 15 | A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that . |
| 16 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 17 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 18 | Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk . |
| 19 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 20 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 21 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 22 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 23 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 24 | This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however . |
| 25 | Sir Hector , who will have his own form to fill in as a farmer in Dumfriesshire , says in the letter : ‘ I recognise that many of you will be fed up at the prospect of yet more literature and more form filling . |
| 26 | Reforming legislation was to be drawn up at an extraordinary PCT congress in 1991 . |
| 27 | Agreements could be drawn up at the request of the government , the management or the unions : ‘ it was tripartism at the grass roots ’ ( Smith 1979 , p. 168 ) . |
| 28 | It remains a mystery whether this meant he retained hopes that some deal could be stitched up at the Conservative tables in the Members ' Dining Room , or was simply threatening to drown his sorrows . |
| 29 | Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In this game you need people like Simon who can be called up at a moment 's notice . ’ |