Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 2 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 3 | They overcame this problem by imagining a full turn , or one revolution , to be split up into 360 equal pieces . |
| 4 | Either the government can order large firms to be split up into smaller independent companies , which it is hoped will act more competitively ( the so-called ‘ structural approach ’ ) , or the government can leave monopoly firms intact but seek to control their performance , for example by monitoring prices and profits and ordering price reductions when firms appear to be exerting their potential monopoly power . |
| 5 | Answer guide : This question needs to be split up into its constituent parts in order to take the student through the progression logically . |
| 6 | Hurray-for-the-Medici cycle of paintings to be split up after 370 years |
| 7 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 8 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 9 | Sooner or later this burden will have to be faced up to in the form of higher taxation either now or in the future . |
| 10 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 11 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 12 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 13 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 14 | See , mibbe Heathcliffe was Kathy 's father 's illegitimate son that he brought back to be brung up with his Respectable Family . |
| 15 | You need to be cooped up with a Jermiah like a hole in the head ! |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not right her having to be cooped up in here with me . |
| 17 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 18 | The corny raucousness which ensued of course meant that the television volume had to be turned up to window-shaking levels so that the happy couple could savour the exquisitely enunciated phrasing of Arnold Schwarzenegger 's lines over the noise of their munching . |
| 19 | Then it was Dean Saunders , only for the pairing to be broken up with his Wales partner 's recent move to Villa . |
| 20 | The slick as a whole is too large to be broken up with chemical dispersal agents , which in any case can have damaging effects on marine life , particularly fish . |
| 21 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 22 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 23 | No. 31 was the last to be broken up in July . |
| 24 | No. 34 was the last to be broken up in June . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 27 | For the city 's planners the poor were a public danger , their potentially riotous concentrations to be broken up by avenues and boulevards which would drive the inhabitants of the crowded popular quarters they replaced into some unspecified , but presumably more sanitary and certainly less perilous locations . |
| 28 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |
| 29 | TVS is rumoured to be teaming up with Carlton Communications ( a video distributor ) , Canal Plus ( a French cable-TV company ) , and the Compagnie Générale des Eaux ( a utility with various media holdings ) . |
| 30 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |