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

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1 Such an exercise can span huge parameter ranges in which quite different behaviours are observed ( but all of which are intimately tied up with the existence of periodic orbits : even the strange attractor is densely packed with unstable orbits ) .
2 As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter .
3 . The letters of all good soldiers show that the military duties of the soldier and his good military bearing are indivisibly bound up with the loyalty to the Führer and thus with a genuine National Socialist attitude in general …
4 Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed .
5 Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year .
6 Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record .
7 It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him .
8 Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury .
9 Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements :
10 It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated .
11 Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue .
12 World championships in several sports are already lined up for the Arena , as well as national and local sports events to drawn sports fans from all over Britain .
13 Andrew Martin and Carl Cartwright are already lined up for the trip .
14 Anglers from the St Helens and Newton-le-Willows areas are already signed up for the waterfront beat .
15 The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away .
16 Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ?
17 What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ?
18 In other words the access paths for joining or separating relations are not set up with the data .
19 What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ?
20 The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) .
21 That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say .
22 If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all .
23 Choosing the right sparkling wine can be a bit of a minefield , especially if you 're not clued up on the different brands available .
24 Get down you 're not allowed up on the cushions hairs .
25 Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen .
26 By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ?
27 ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here .
28 If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms .
29 Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland .
30 Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door .
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