Example sentences of "is [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you . |
| 2 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 3 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 4 | PAUL McGRATH is lining up the ultimate act of revenge against former boss Alex Ferguson — by snatching the title away from the Manchester United manager . |
| 5 | Every time the monitor is powered up the de-gaussing circuit fires up and destroys and/or corrupts all your lovely data that 's being stored right next to the great big degaussing coil surrounding the screen . |
| 6 | Charles Saatchi once said : ‘ The reason most companies make an acquisition is to cover up the dreadful mistakes of the last acquisition . ’ |
| 7 | In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea . |
| 8 | Perhaps the only answer is to send up the whole pantomime . |
| 9 | They may disclose only their name , rank , date of birth and serial number ‘ or equivalent ’ ; if bullied , their best technique is to send up the unseen questioner . |
| 10 | As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen . |
| 11 | When we 've got an economic mess , the first duty of a government is to clear up the economic mess . |
| 12 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 13 | National Transcommunications Ltd , the buyout of the Independent Broadcasting Authority 's engineering and transmitters arm , is to build a cable link between London and Birmingham capable of carrying television and telephone services and has signed a 10-year contract in which the UK 's largest cable television operator , Birmingham Cable Ltd , is to take up the initial capacity ; the line from Birmingham to United Artists ' London South in Croydon will link the two cable-franchise areas , according to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 14 | Clearing away all the leaves under a hedge is bad news for hedgehogs , as is smartening up the accumulated debris behind a toolshed or summerhouse . |
| 15 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 16 | The first number of each plotted position is read across the horizontal line , ( called an axis ) , the second number is read up the vertical axis . |