Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fares in other regions are due to go up in May . |
| 2 | The following are due to line up at Cleveland Park : Sumner , Les Collins ( Edinburgh ) , Wayne Carter ( Wolverhampton ) , Carl Stonehewer ( Belle Vue ) , Peter Carr ( Sheffield ) , Neville Tatum ( Eastbourne ) , Neil Evitts ( Sheffield ) , Nathan Simpson ( Eastbourne ) , Paul Bentley ( Coventry ) , Andy Phillips ( Poole ) , Scott Robson , Scott Lamb , David Blackburn , David Walsh ( all Berwick ) , Paul Whittaker ( Peterborough ) , Kenny McKinna ( Edinburgh . ) |
| 3 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 4 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 5 | If you are prepared to tie up at least £1,000 for two years the National & Provincial has launched Security Bond III which currently pays 11.75 per cent net . |
| 6 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 7 | But a significant body of respected people , notably from the press and A&R departments , some of whom had worked for Virgin for years , argued that the meeting should go ahead , ‘ For the sake , ’ as one person put it , ‘ of those who are afraid to speak up for themselves . ’ |
| 8 | Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation . |
| 9 | All of my local contacts for people who are willing to travel up to Leeds etc , came as a result of either me , or them wearing a Leeds shirt . |
| 10 | Now frantic supporters who lost out are willing to pay up to £75 for a voucher they need to buy a ticket for the cup final on May 9 . |
| 11 | I think , you know , you say you 've got a month , I think you 're gon na need also to try and find out from your membership as to whether in fact they 're prepared to turn up on a Saturday as well . |
| 12 | ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’ |
| 13 | Yes , well , if you go , if just you and I go we 're likely to end up with somebody who knows us . |
| 14 | Erm , firstly , we are looking at carers for employees , and we 're unlikely to come up with very much , because we have n't got much money to do it . |
| 15 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 16 | ‘ Whenever you 're ready to go up into town . |
| 17 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 18 | Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow 's sale . |
| 19 | However , what is worrying is that , once labelled , we are likely to live up to that label . |
| 20 | A special feature on the Trade Finance team ( they assess whether credit risk countries are likely to cough up for BP oil they have bought ) written by freelancer Mike Martin got a separate award from the judges . |
| 21 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 22 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 23 | Otherwise you are likely to end up with an obese dog , and the resulting complications can lead to heart problems . |
| 24 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 25 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 26 | If you are shooting video in a zoo where animals are kept behind bars , you are likely to come up against situations which prove that auto-focus systems are not quite as clever as you are . |
| 27 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 28 | In Britain we are likely to come up against similar , if not identical , perverse incentives as the NHS reforms alter the way in which services are funded . |
| 29 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 30 | You are supposed to sit up with a straight back . |