Example sentences of "are [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [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 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 4 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 5 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 6 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 7 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 8 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 9 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 10 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 11 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 12 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 13 | While most people still visit in groups , opportunities for independent travel are increasing , and more and better hotels are springing up in the major cities . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , people become so involved in the task that they rarely notice that you are setting up in a different way . |