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

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1 Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture .
2 It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland !
3 And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum .
4 Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia .
5 It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing .
6 Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way .
7 Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger .
8 Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award .
9 This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it .
10 They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service .
11 And then you 're going up again on a surprisingly gentle rebound .
12 That 's the real reason ye 're holed up here in the mountains … ’
13 We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal .
14 We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal .
15 Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ
16 Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems .
17 The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield .
18 The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief .
19 The long , slender pelvic fins are drawn up flush with the underside of the body , while the pectoral fins lie flat against the sides .
20 Specialist journals of the ‘ have to have ’ variety , needed by all good universities , are holding up well in an unsympathetic environment , but journals publishers generally are having to market harder to maintain subscriptions .
21 We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water .
22 A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state .
23 The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager .
24 The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes .
25 Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive .
26 As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University .
27 All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues .
28 I am brought up sharp in a busy street ,
29 The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information .
30 Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space .
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