Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 2 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |
| 3 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 4 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 5 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 7 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 8 | The debates over the merger had precipitated a number of leadership changes in the old parties and alliances in the months leading up to the final agreement . |
| 9 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 10 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 11 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me about Jules , ’ he said as they approached the stone steps leading up to the arched doorway into the château . |
| 13 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 14 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 15 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 16 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 17 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 18 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 19 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 20 | He pushed the sheet of paper away and looked around him , his eyes straying up to the dusty rafters . |
| 21 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 22 | Inside , the five-aisled church is immensely tall , its piers extending up to the complicated stellar and geometric ribbed vaults of nave and choir . |
| 23 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 24 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 25 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 26 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 27 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 28 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 29 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 30 | Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border . |