Example sentences of "is [verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 4 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 5 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 6 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 7 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 8 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 9 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 10 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 11 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 12 | On environmental grounds , use of solvent-based product is falling and our job is to come up with the right alternative across a whole spectrum of end uses . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 14 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 15 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 16 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 17 | As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder . |
| 18 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 19 | Indeed , she believes that she is caught up in a bureaucratic cage , the different branches of the council being in league with local and national branches of other sections of the state apparatus . |
| 20 | There is now a widespread view that trade unionism is caught up in a fundamental transformation . |
| 21 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 22 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 23 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 24 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 25 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 26 | What has to be opened up is the unsupervised way in which internationally and nationally the sum of all our communications is sucked up into the electronic vacuum cleaner that is Cheltenham |
| 27 | Later study will fill in the spaces with key words of lesser rank , until the whole topic is built up into a coherent and connected body of knowledge . |
| 28 | One is built up around a double crochet ring , giving six two-chain loops and into these loops are worked about six or seven trebles each . |
| 29 | It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences . |
| 30 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |