Example sentences of "[am/are] [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 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am booked up solid . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The objectives of this project are to open up new theoretical insights and practical applications in the field of industrial fault diagnosis by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of a major departure from the way in which the diagnostic problem |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 15 | We 're bringing up new nomes , he thought . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 17 | We 're picking up new habits all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're dancing up front . |
| 19 | Police say they 're following up possible sightings of Dennis Garvey ’ s car from all over the country . |
| 20 | Whales and seals that are washed up dead on our coasts have nothing to do with pollution . |
| 21 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 22 | Many clones are being dispatched in flimsy packaging , so minor problems which occur in transit — such as loose cables — mean that some machines are turning up dead on arrival . |
| 23 | eh ? yeah they are shrivelled up little nuts , there was this programme last night about the B B C when it first started in the nineteen fifties |
| 24 | But do n't let that fool you — by nightfall people are waking up ready to go out on the town . |
| 25 | Potential employers are lining up leading members of the ‘ Grey Guard ’ , who have dominated amateur cycling in the 1980s . |
| 26 | SOUTHAMPTON are lining up Australian international goalkeeper John Filan to replace unsettled former Celtic star Ian Andrews . |
| 27 | Subsequently in municipal law , bodies other than the sovereign body were recognised as having the power to create legal entities ; a corporation exists within the terms of its Memorandum and Articles of Association , both of which are drawn up prior to incorporation . |
| 28 | When people are moving up front he can pass well . |
| 29 | The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow . |
| 30 | Does he accept that what he has announced is not sufficient to deal with the applications from asylum seekers , let alone with other immigration applications which are bottling up Lunar house ? |