Example sentences of "are [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 3 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 4 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 5 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 6 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 7 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 8 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 9 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 10 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 11 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 13 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 14 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 15 | Thus the expenditure needs are built up from a whole series of estimates , referring to the many components of Local Government expenditure . |
| 16 | Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer . |
| 17 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
| 18 | Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways . |
| 19 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 20 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 21 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 22 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 23 | These are linked up to a central control panel which monitors the entire system . |
| 24 | These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year . |
| 25 | Affected troops are swept up upon a heaving bridge of ice and carried rapidly to their new location . |
| 26 | When these are considered of more than local importance , they are taken up at a national level . |
| 27 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 28 | We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . |
| 29 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , people become so involved in the task that they rarely notice that you are setting up in a different way . |