Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 3 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 4 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 5 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 6 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 7 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 8 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 9 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 10 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 11 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 12 | Things are hotting up in local classrooms |
| 13 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 14 | You will soon be meeting up with other dogs and your pack instincts will come into their own . |
| 15 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 16 | Sparta 'll be coming up in five minutes exactly . ’ |
| 17 | By 2020 , China could be emitting up to three times the US total ( although its per capita figure will probably stay below the US ) . |
| 18 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 19 | Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs . |
| 20 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 21 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 22 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 23 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 24 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 25 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 26 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 27 | Some of those attending were travelling up to 30 miles and acknowledged that they suffered some physical and mental fatigue but could make no suggestion as to how to avoid it . |
| 28 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 29 | Residents eating locally-grown vegetables were consuming up to 11 times the maximum amount of lead regarded as safe by the World Health Organization . |
| 30 | I quoted reports of the quick friendships which were springing up between Burmese villagers and the BOR , and included the following paragraphs : |