Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 2 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 3 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 4 | when I want to buy a shirt , that men 's shirts are usually all sealed up in a package |
| 5 | Most aphids can grow up either as a wingless stationary form or a winged migratory form ; they are more likely to grow up with wings if the local population density is high . |
| 6 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Marconi are also certain to go up after beating Pyestock ‘ K ’ and Ash ‘ K ’ and drawing with Frimley ‘ E ’ . |
| 8 | Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with . |
| 9 | Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with . |
| 10 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 11 | And they are quite happy to put up with what I would term the inconvenience of going there and back each day |
| 12 | By their very nature meetings with doctors , lawyers , bank managers and similar professionals can relate to very personal matters , problems which are sometimes hard to face up to . |
| 13 | Here in the UK we are pretty much fed up of it already . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , they are actually entitled to do up to twenty-five commercials a year . ’ |
| 15 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |
| 16 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 17 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |
| 18 | Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’ |
| 19 | Or could it be that you are too frightened to own up to your own emotional weaknesses ? ’ |