Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 32 | I do not want to make too much of them , but there are bogus applications and they are completely clogging up the system . |
| 33 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 34 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 35 | The UK , which already allows freedom to provide services into its territory , is not taking up the option to require authorisation . |
| 36 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |
| 37 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 38 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 39 | Compaq Computer Corp accompanied its new product blitz yesterday with the news that it will no longer publish suggested list prices for its machines in the US — but unlike IBM Corp with its mainframes , it 's not tearing up the price list . |
| 40 | Motorola , Mace says , is still cleaning up the part and does n't want to announce pricing or general availability until later in the year . |
| 41 | Manu National Park , which is more isolated up the Madre de Dios River , has two million insects , one thousand species of birds , fifteen thousand species of plants , two hundred species of freshwater fish , two hundred species of bats — some still unknown to science . |
| 42 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 43 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 44 | Datacraft , a $70m Australian integrator , is also picking up the stuff . |
| 45 | It is also speeding up the installation of cab radios linked to signal boxes , and is adopting major changes in management practice to ensure that the safety measures are properly implemented . |
| 46 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 47 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 48 | The trick is simply to add up the numbers . |
| 49 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 50 | There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving . |
| 51 | And so when you , so it means that the Dutch are leaders , so it 's , it 's kind of , that 's how putting up the communications empire . |
| 52 | It is currently drawing up the goals it intends to achieve , which , as an Opportunity 2000 signatory , it is required to announce publicly . |
| 53 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 54 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |
| 55 | Pentland — who are currently propping up the bottom of the men 's first division table without a win — have called for a bigger , more competitive league next season . |
| 56 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
| 57 | I was just dishing up the ravioli and he had n't even had time to take his helmet off when Nutty stormed in , drunk as a fiddler . |
| 58 | Ashley Booth , the hotel 's general manager , said : ‘ He was just stoking up the fire when it blew back on him and burned one of his hands . ’ |
| 59 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 60 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |