Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 3 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 4 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 5 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 6 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 7 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 8 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 9 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 10 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 11 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 12 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 13 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 14 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 15 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 16 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 17 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 18 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 19 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 20 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 21 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 22 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 23 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 24 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 25 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 26 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a support group as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against brain cancer . |
| 27 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a brain tumour association as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against cancer . |
| 28 | The club are to set up an office where tickets will be available from 9.30am-noon from Monday to Thursday . |
| 29 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 30 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |