Example sentences of "be [verb] up on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terracotta pots should be propped up on small blocks to aid drainage and prevent ants infesting the compost . |
| 2 | She hardly ever read it herself now , preferring Alexandra to read it to her , but some mornings , when she felt stronger , she would be propped up on extra pillows and given the paper and her glass . |
| 3 | Well after er we , things be begin to get more organized , people from outside the factory was drafted into the unit so i it began to be build up on that . |
| 4 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 5 | This group also had to be made up on strict equal-opportunities lines , with the requisite number of minorities and women . |
| 6 | In the present state of our knowledge of provincial life during the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods , no precise scale can as yet be drawn up on any single topic , let alone a general model that encompasses and balances all factors . |
| 7 | ‘ Depending on the way nurse prescribing is introduced , there is a real danger that time saved may be used up on additional procedures . |
| 8 | These islands are rapidly broken up by wind and waves , but the pumice fragments may be carried thousands of kilometres , to be washed up on some distant coral strand . |
| 9 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 10 | To be brought up on covered pitches only is like learning English without a concurrent basic grounding in Latin . |
| 11 | Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington , Coun Bill Dixon said . |
| 12 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 13 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 14 | A photograph of the man could be flashed up on one side of the screen with a contrasting picture of his frail victim on the other side . |
| 15 | Nick points are often difficult to distinguish from breaks of slope caused by hard bands of rock , especially as nick points will tend to be held up on such hard beds through the difficulty of eroding resistant rock . |