Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening up to gas |
| 2 | Keeping up to date , helping to improve skills for the off-farm job , and making contact with other farmers were other minor responses . |
| 3 | Radio Rentals take a pride in keeping up to date with new broadcasting technology . |
| 4 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 5 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 6 | She can give him chapter and verse on Finance Acts and other current legislation , and is rigorous in keeping up to date . |
| 7 | Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers . |
| 8 | Keeping up to date with developments in your own specialty can go a long way to adding to your confidence . |
| 9 | If you have another part-time job , or domestic commitments , then bank nursing can be a very flexible way of keeping up to date professionally . |
| 10 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 11 | As time passes , it becomes harder for workers to shift , but it is just a matter of absorption and keeping up to date , ’ he says . |
| 12 | At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work . |
| 13 | What is our mechanism for keeping up to date ? |
| 14 | By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas . |
| 15 | If you work as an in-house solicitor , you will have responsibility for drafting and keeping up to date standard contract documents for use by your employer in the main business — from simple invoice terms and conditions of sale or purchase to those suitable for major projects and transactions and non-standard contracts for individual or complicated projects . |
| 16 | Four activities , in , matter : the way in which teaching and learning are conducted , keeping up to date in a subject , applying a new technology and managing the sequence of review , improvement and change . |
| 17 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 18 | Keeping up to date with the latest product developments can be a full time job , particularly in the scientific world . |
| 19 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 20 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 21 | Professor Sloman has brought spelling up to date except where this would involve changes in pronunciation , accentuation and capitalization . |
| 22 | It 's funny to be driving up to town again . |
| 23 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 24 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 25 | Maseratis ‘ not living up to legend ’ |
| 26 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 27 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 28 | Because what we do n't have is people turning up to work because they 're afraid they 'll lose their job during these recessionary times . |
| 29 | Er but if not let's move up erm to towards er towards , and this is erm this is the erm former under-bridge at , going up to Mill . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |