Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 2 | I had no idea you 'd turn out to be mixed up in all this , ’ she blurted out , ‘ I do n't know what to do . ’ |
| 3 | This corresponds well to the high pitch of mouse sounds , which can be emitted up to this same level . |
| 4 | Your record does n't have to be picked up by all these routes for promotion , but if you enjoy Record of the Week in NME at the same time as receiving good reviews of your live shows and the occasional play on Radio 1 , this should allow you to make impression on the Indie charts or even the national top 100 . |
| 5 | Outline case histories will be built up concerning many thousands of individual victims . |
| 6 | We would then treat arithmetic as a set of manipulations which ( in theory ) could be built up from these more primitive operations , but which in practice are supplied as basic computer instructions for efficiency . |
| 7 | Consequently , a nominal 60-year loan would in practice be made up of many short- , medium- , and long-term loans . |
| 8 | Instead a person could be held to commit an offence if he used words or published written matter which were threatening abusive or insulting in situations where , ‘ having regard to all the circumstances , hatred is likely to be stirred up against any racial group in Britain . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A survey of the mental image of the sausage among housewives ( this example is not made up ) may use psychological techniques but is unlikely to be tied up with much basic psychological theory . |
| 12 | The trouble is , he 's going to be tied up with all this now . |
| 13 | No more than 10 per cent of total investment to be tied up in any one company . |
| 14 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 15 | I do n't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle . |
| 16 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 17 | A problem report will be set up for each reported problem . |
| 18 | An element is a pure substance which can not be split up into any simpler pure substance . |
| 19 | The ‘ gaze ’ for Lacan relates to this fictitious place that can never be taken up by any human being . |
| 20 | ‘ Who knows but they may be lined up outside that very wall , waiting to flock in on us ! ’ |
| 21 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 22 | And the next , and the next ; the mess made making each broom had to be cleared up with that same broom , and wore it away . |
| 23 | ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club . |
| 24 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
| 25 | Usually , a stallion drives his sons out when they reach sexual maturity ( the fillies wander off , to be snapped up by some lucky bachelor ) ; but some stallions will allow their sons to stay on for years , co-opting their help in defensive action or mare-collecting raids . |
| 26 | 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 . |