Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 2 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 3 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 4 | A number of places in the faculty are taken up each year by students who are already , or are about to become , graduates in other disciplines . |
| 5 | But the corridor is lit up both ways . |
| 6 | The project has decimated the Amazon forest and led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians since their habitat was opened up 10 years ago . |
| 7 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 8 | My Lords , I took the opportunity knowing this question was coming up last Friday to spend an entire morning on the site in the building |
| 9 | The aim is to open up higher education to under-represented groups through provision which offers enhanced support plus guaranteed further training at the end of one year . |
| 10 | Your daddy 's giving up important business . |
| 11 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 12 | An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing , sitting or walking . |
| 13 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 14 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 15 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 16 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 17 | And Dennis Garvey 's body was washed up two days later on the Suffolk coast . |
| 18 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 19 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 20 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 21 | Painting software 's most practical use is to clean up scanned-in photographs to improve the output quality . |
| 22 | One simple self-assessment method is to draw up two columns : one lists recent achievements , the other further needs ( Table 6.3 ) . |
| 23 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 24 | One of the growing practices in modern legislation is to set up supervisory bodies , or ‘ watchdogs ’ , to monitor the effects of the law in society . |
| 25 | When the shopping centre was locked up that night , Ray Coary the manager praised my work , and tried to press an envelope on me . |
| 26 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 27 | One frame of the film is exposed every six seconds and if the film is then shown at 24 frames a second , the motion is speeded up 144 times and provides a dramatic picture of the cells ' behaviour . |
| 28 | The African Development Bank is to draw up new guidelines for funding projects in the forestry sector . |
| 29 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 30 | A special freephone advice line was opened up last Tuesday and was swamped by hundreds of callers . |