Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 4 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 5 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 6 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 7 | On environmental grounds , use of solvent-based product is falling and our job is to come up with the right alternative across a whole spectrum of end uses . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 9 | As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder . |
| 10 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 11 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 12 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 13 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 14 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 15 | What has to be opened up is the unsupervised way in which internationally and nationally the sum of all our communications is sucked up into the electronic vacuum cleaner that is Cheltenham |
| 16 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 17 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 18 | Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action . |
| 19 | Consistent with the purpose of the paper , one third of a typical number is made up of the perennial feature " Around the Country " , with reports from the branches about their activities and other local social news . |
| 20 | The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client . |
| 21 | A paradigm is made up of the general theoretical assumptions and laws and techniques for their application that the members of a particular scientific community adopt . |
| 22 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 23 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 24 | The Service is made up of the Latin American sections of the international Catholic organisations for radio and television ( UNDA ) , press ( UCLAP ) and audio visuals ( OCIC ) . |
| 25 | The former is a collection of the more interesting statistics published by the state , and the latter is made up from the same sources , but is presented in a more varied and readable form , including charts and diagrams . |
| 26 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 27 | ‘ She is fed up with the naval life ? ’ |
| 28 | Like most activists , Isaacs is fed up with the sloth-like pace with which governments are taking on environmental concerns . |
| 29 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 30 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |