Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 2 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 3 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 4 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 5 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 6 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 7 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 8 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 9 | Keeping up with the pace of change |
| 10 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 11 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 12 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 13 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 14 | Most clients who require the sale and purchase to run side by side , will be worried about ending up with no house at all , or two houses . |
| 15 | Liam Conway , Claire Breslin , Adrian Rouiller and Margaret McConkey , all of AIB Dublin , made a formidable line up behind Martin , finally ending up with a total of 889 in the crucial last game . |
| 16 | ‘ Then I 'll get some , ’ she decided on the spot , and embarked on a small spending spree , ending up with a bottle of Becherovka , a bottle of plum brandy called Slivovitz and a presentation box of some sweet wafer biscuits called Oplatky which were traditional to the area . |
| 17 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 18 | He subjected both to repeated analysis , ending up with a version of Maria Luisa in which she is transformed into a sharp-beaked , staring owl , and of Francisco Lezcano in which he has metamorphosed into a dog . |
| 19 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 20 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 21 | The best move was a forty yard pass from Macca , touched on by Deane to Wallace , I think ending up with a shot from Rocky . |
| 22 | Besides , she did n't want to take such a step merely for escape 's sake and perhaps find herself ending up as a prisoner in just another house in just another town . |
| 23 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 24 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 25 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 26 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 27 | He did n't want her cracking up in the middle of the Season . |
| 28 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 29 | From its inception in 1983 to the winding up of the programme in 1987 the government through the Training Agency ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) will have committed close on 1 billion to TVEI . |
| 30 | The onset of insolvency is the date of presentation of an administration petition or the date of commencement of winding up by the presentation of a winding up petition or a resolution by the company to go into liquidation . |