Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 2 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 3 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 4 | Three Englishmen ventured north , bought into , and are now building up the 200-year-old Scottish printer Pillans & Wilson . |
| 5 | What plans are there to tighten up the foster service vetting which , in this case , allowed a known homosexual to adopt a child ? |
| 6 | A written request for a brief photocall from the media , who were not allowed up the 100-yard driveway to the hotel , was conveyed by a garda to Mr Keenan . |
| 7 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 8 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 9 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
| 10 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
| 11 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 12 | They are completely tearing up the whole site , including a new turf course as well as the all-weather , but Muddle'splans extend far beyond the obvious . |
| 13 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 14 | However , this nutritional " recovery " is only tidying up the physical consequence of the disease . |
| 15 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 16 | The wrangle over airline stakes has already forced British Airways to rethink its plans , and the much wider argument over farm policies is still holding up the long-delayed Uruguay round of GATT talks on the further liberalisation of international trade . |
| 17 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 18 | So the interior ministry is about to haul up the white flag . |
| 19 | HERE 'S how to call up the latest Stock Exchange prices of the shares listed below . |
| 20 | HERE 'S how to call up the latest Stock Exchange prices of the shares listed below . |
| 21 | Band and entourage are currently loading up the trojan horse ready to re-locate form their communal urban Chicago base , to Austin , Texas . |
| 22 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 23 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 24 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |