Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] 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 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 4 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 5 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 6 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 7 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 8 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 9 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 13 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Current debates on lesbian ‘ dress sense ’ are opening up more possibilities for experiment with image . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 22 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 23 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 24 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 25 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 26 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 27 | Others are students who seek work during vacations or at weekends and yet others are students on hotel and catering courses who are picking up practical experience . |
| 28 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 29 | Yentob and his colleague Michael Jackson , who came from The Late Show to run the music and arts department , are picking up warm endorsements for assuming Channel 4 's mantle of experiment . |
| 30 | More youngsters are finding their own values clashing with a school 's social codes , some are picking up contradictory messages from the media and more are coming from broken or damaged families . |