Example sentences of "and [noun pl] be [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 2 | On 28 June 1919 the Treaty was put into effect and plebiscites were set up in Warmia , Mazuria and Silesia to determine the exact areas of land to be allocated to Poland . |
| 3 | Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey . |
| 4 | The jangling of his chains and bells was swallowed up by the blackness . |
| 5 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 6 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 7 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 8 | Can attitudes and dispositions be summoned up at will ? |
| 9 | All these activities require a substantial bureaucracy to ensure that the licences and certificates are kept up to date and to enforce the regulations . |
| 10 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 11 | The ride is firm but damping first class as undulations and bumps are swallowed up with ease . |
| 12 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 13 | The interests of the overwhelming majority of professional people , small business men , shopkeepers and farmers are bound up with the social progress of the Labour and Democratic Movements . |
| 14 | Hard coral colonies of species such as Goniopora and Favites are made up of individually small polyps and it would be possible to divide a colony into several separate pieces . |
| 15 | In another family , where the inheritance from the father was quite substantial , funds for the brothers and sisters were tied up in a trust which was administered by their mother , and this appeared to result in a series of squabbles about whether each of them was getting their fair share in comparison with the others ( p. 376 ) . |
| 16 | Campbell points out that Jesus ' sufferings , far from being heroic , are far more wonderful than that ; all our wounds and pains are taken up in his and are redeemed . |
| 17 | In the meantime , the aunts and cousins were put up in their usual caravans . |
| 18 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 19 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 20 | It appears that neutrons and protons are made up of quarks . |
| 21 | Some pairs of boots and wellingtons were lined up beside it , and on the wall , above a crude , oil landscape that seemed meant to depict the moor where the diver nested , was a long rack , presumably meant for fishing-rods . |
| 22 | What was most encouraging was the extent to which common goals and ideals were backed up by local collaboration and a significant amount of interaction at the field level ; what was most disappointing was that this continued to be overlaid by an enduring legacy of suspicion — even hostility — at more senior levels . |
| 23 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 24 | The first of those facts is that animals and humans are made up of almost identical bits and pieces . |
| 25 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 26 | SIXTYSOMETHING : Grey hair and wrinkles are catching up with Clint but the Hollywood giant is not ready for the bus pass yet LEAPING WITH LIFE : Clint takes pride in the fact that he still does most of his own stunts |
| 27 | High apartment buildings and hotels were built up without any urban planning . |
| 28 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 29 | The state telecoms monopolies wanted to retain their privileged positions , and that meant extending their privileges , since new technologies and services were springing up on every hand . |
| 30 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |