Example sentences of "could be [verb] up " in BNC.
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1 | But in the absence of an effective liaison between drainage men and archaeologists , there is a danger that such remarkable finds as the Bronze Age settlement built on a timber ‘ island ’ recently rescued at Flag Fen near Peterborough could be broken up by diggers or else left to crumble on exposure to the atmosphere . |
2 | We argued that Marxism could be broken up into three elements : a philosophy of history , a theory of economics and a view of the state and revolution . |
3 | He is worried , however , that the team which won the East Championship so well could be broken up if Chelmsford insist on retaining all their players for friendly matches . |
4 | It was ‘ discouraging officers from investigating crimes fully ’ , even those which could be cleared up . |
5 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
6 | On March 26 Böhme stood down temporarily from the SPD leadership , until the allegations could be cleared up . |
7 | But if she restrained her imagination and waited until he showed his hand , surely the misunderstanding could be cleared up and they could part as friends ? she thought forlornly . |
8 | The courts were the only place at the moment where such uncertainties could be cleared up , but Prof McLean argued that they were not the place to decide such matters . |
9 | He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around . |
10 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
11 | Make some free disk space available er yet if you have n't done this check the disk for er six months or more , you probably have quite a lot of disk space , I would imagine , that could be freed up . |
12 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
13 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
14 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
15 | Do you have any general feelings about that , do you feel that things could be tightened up ? |
16 | And the wording could be tightened up possibly on that basis chair er chairman . |
17 | A company which claims to train a third of all motorcyclists in the country could be setting up a school at Langbaurgh 's Wheelbase complex at South Bank after winning council support . |
18 | The sorry plight of an ailing club continued with the news that a supporters ' coach had been involved in a crash and that only 12 youngsters could be rounded up to take on Leicester in a youth match . |
19 | This could be followed up by subsequent research , possibly by comparing whether the migrants apply to more courses and institutions than non–enrollers . |
20 | Teachers were also asked to give their names so that non-respondents could be followed up . |
21 | Of the 25 patients discharged either after surgical ( two cases ) and endoscopic ( 23 cases ) treatment , 23 could be followed up either by direct contact or by information obtained from their physicians . |
22 | Mr Pienaar 's spokesman said : ‘ The Administrator-General is very disturbed that with the evidence at our disposal we realise that a situation could be building up which could lead to the ultimate defeat of the aims and objectives of Resolution 435 . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The paper could be pasted up by amateurs , and set on a typewriter . |
25 | In Australia , championships are gained on a point system and it is feasible , however unlikely , that a Rottweiler Champion could be made up without actually meeting a member of his own breed in competition . |
26 | This could be made up , for example , of 4 oz. of lean meat , fish , chicken or rabbit , plus 2 oz. of cheese and one pint of milk OR 3 oz. of cheese , 3 oz. of beans , one egg and one pint of milk . |
27 | The Institute of the future could be made up of groups of chartered accountants , with their own specialist designatory letters , if proposals unanimously endorsed by the Institute 's Council , are approved . |
28 | The set could be made up from many of the combinations suggested within the framework given in Section 4 . |
29 | VXM says PowerTools can be used to create networked processing systems — not necessarily parallel in nature — which could be made up of heterogeneous Unix workstations and servers , including those from DEC , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems . |
30 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |