Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 3 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 4 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 5 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 6 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 7 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 8 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 9 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 10 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 11 | If you 're eighteen to twenty four years old and you 're bringing up a child on your own . |
| 12 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 13 | Now I accept that if you 're adding up a column of figures you ca n't say well it 's within a few thousand well that 'll do . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're vacuuming up the debris on the land and mulching it again , ’ Hawtree explains . |
| 15 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 16 | You 're setting up a place for people to live and conduct their business , and the people most able to do that are the gipsies themselves . |
| 17 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 19 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 20 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 21 | The conclusion that Nizan wishes to highlight is lucidly straightforward : The forces of fascism are taking up the fight against the anti-fascist educator . |
| 22 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 23 | Following a recommendation from Surrey Teachers we are setting up a fund in memory of Ann McMillan , whose untimely death last July shocked everyone . |
| 24 | The trio scored 6/6 between them in rounds seven and eight and are carving up the rest of the field , none of whom has more than 50 per cent . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you certainly are clearing up a number of problems in prehistory for us . |
| 26 | Police investigating the disapearance of Thames water company Chairman Sir Roy Watts are following up a number of possible sightings . |