Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is one reason why companies like ICI and IBM are building up comprehensive communications programmes , internal as well as external which involve listening just as much as talking . |
| 2 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 3 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 4 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 5 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 6 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 7 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 8 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 9 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 10 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 11 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 12 | ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ |
| 13 | The Euge boys are whipping up considerable consternation over here largely because , as every single Atlantic Records ' employee is wont to point out , the fella from Nirvana likes ‘ em . |
| 14 | There may well be other regions of the universe , or other universes ( whatever that may mean ) , in which all the dimensions are curled up small or in which more than four dimensions are nearly flat , but there would be no intelligent beings in such regions to observe the different number of effective dimensions . |
| 15 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 16 | I am booked up solid . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 18 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Current debates on lesbian ‘ dress sense ’ are opening up more possibilities for experiment with image . |
| 20 | At any rate , they had known that the Nilsen girl had n't delivered her message unless they were guessing , word having got around that she had been picked up unconscious . |
| 21 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 22 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 23 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think we are wound up more than other teams . |
| 25 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 26 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 27 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 28 | In the Conran shop Thirtysomethings are snapping up bendy Babars at £10 a pop ; Liberty stocks Babar children 's wear ; there 's a film and TV series on the way . |
| 29 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 30 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |