Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier .
2 Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’
3 Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over .
4 Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over .
5 Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton .
6 Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’
7 So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change .
8 Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " .
9 Polperro 's festivities fell five days later at St Peter 's Fair , and Quiller Couch beautifully described how a pile of tar barrels and wood would be built up on the beach for the entire village to gather around and see it lighted .
10 This is generally done in much the same way as a diagram would be built up on the screen .
11 The stocking level would be built up over the weeks .
12 At a frank meeting with the above , at which this community 's concerns were forcefully put , it was agreed that work would halt during our community festival and that the area would be cleaned up for the festival .
13 Aunt Sarah would be curled up on the sofa , in guernsey and old jeans , having chased Robin and Jenny out so that she could phone in peace .
14 As I arrived a tractor pulled up with sacks of freshly-picked hops that would be carried up to the main floor of the building to be dried .
15 At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year .
16 As early as December 1935 , he publicly recorded Nazi Germany 's refusal to conclude any pact with the Soviet Union , arguing that such a pact would " not remove the causes of the differences between the USSR and Germany " , and that a pact of this kind " would be the classic type of " dishonest " pact because it would be drawn up with the intention of being broken " .
17 Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future .
18 In the context of moves towards unification , the Aden news agency said on March 3 that a single budget for 1991 would be drawn up by the North and South Yemeni finance ministers .
19 The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development
20 " The Chairman after a few opening remarks intimated to the Meeting that the Debate would be taken up by the Revd.
21 It was announced that remaining unresolved issues would be taken up by the START negotiating teams in Geneva , and both sides stressed their determination to complete the drafting by the end of 1990 .
22 because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath
23 To this I would wire 2 of my 3 200 watt heaters ; the third would be wired up to the internal stat .
24 The subject will actually come into the sleep laboratory in the afternoon , would be wired up to the small box , would go home , essentially carrying just a normal briefcase , a businessman from the office or whatever .
25 Addressing concerns expressed about the problem of lawlessness in some parts of the country which was deterring some businessmen from expanding their operations , Khan reassured them that a special force would be set up by the government specifically to protect oil installations .
26 That an exchange of the ransom for Simon Cormack would be set up within the day , and that the authorities were confident all the kidnappers would be caught in the process .
27 Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves .
28 If the surfaces were cleaned by sand blasting , that concrete dust would be mixed up with the sand used in the cleaning ; but when the surfaces are cleaned with dry ice , the pellets sublime away into easily filtered gas .
29 If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer .
30 Some twenty-four people at least would attend these meetings and all would be put up in the château , or its annexe , and provided with lunch , dinner and breakfast the next day .
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