Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] up from " in BNC.

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1 Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary .
2 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 .
3 Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare .
4 Our inner responses to conflict are often dredged up from deep and sometimes murky wells within us .
5 The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery .
6 Far from Freud 's concept of the super-ego being one which assumes the super-ego to be entirely built up from outside , from social relationships with parents and educators only — as Parsons — claims — it , too , contains instinctual elements .
7 Alan Cooke , who has the disadvantage of playing ‘ cold ’ in the doubles while his opponents are invariably warmed up from previous games , hit a cascade of winners in the crucial mid-match doubles .
8 Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists .
9 He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’
10 As the arrivals list is only made up from guests who have made reservations in advance , it will not show ‘ chance ’ guests or a guest who changes rooms after the list has been circulated .
11 Thus , a Landsat 1–3 MSS false-colour composite image is generally made up from band 7 ( shortwave infrared ) displayed as red , band 5 ( red ) displayed in green and band 4 ( green ) displayed in blue .
12 Yet authority is passed down or delegated through the formal organisation ; it is not passed up from supervisors to senior managers .
13 In newborn babies , the infection is usually picked up from the mother 's vagina during birth .
14 The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh .
15 The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) .
16 The bio-reactors are cleverly rigged up from glass jars , tubing and other components and driven by the pump from a car windscreen washer .
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