Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 2 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 3 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 4 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 5 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 6 | These matters are taken up in the next chapter . |
| 7 | The calculations that describe how the chemical elements were cooked up in the turmoil of creation say that there were three types of neutrino around to help things on their way . |
| 8 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 9 | The answer is , of course , that the new clause does not relate to all the private operators , but it does relate to the subsidiaries being set up in the Bill . |
| 10 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 11 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
| 12 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 13 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 14 | Let him therefore be paid lip service , but for all practical purposes be shut up in the Bible where he can do no harm . |
| 15 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 16 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 17 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 18 | Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science . |
| 19 | Hence public debt , irrespective of whether it is domestic or foreign owned , involves a cost-influencing choice : at the time the decision is made ‘ forgone opportunities are experienced ’ ( p. 182 ) , but this has ‘ no connection with the fact that resources are used up in the initial period ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 20 | Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright . |
| 21 | COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . |
| 22 | The performance took the audience from gasps of fear as dancers were thrown up in the air , to laughter as a roller skating bear entertained . |
| 23 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |
| 24 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 25 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 26 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 27 | As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns . |
| 28 | Reversals have , so far as is known , been taking place throughout geological time , and the evidence of these reversals is stored up in the magnetic fabrics of the rocks of both the continents and the oceanic crust . |
| 29 | One of the biggest nightmares for company chiefs is to wake up in the morning to be greeted by Which ? headlines branding their latest product as ‘ rip-off ’ or ‘ death-trap ’ . |
| 30 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |