Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the final lock , the canal joined a river , opening up into a very wide stretch of water , bounded by pleasant meadows and with scores of mooring places , most of them occupied . |
| 2 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 3 | Her world was opening up with a vengeance . |
| 4 | CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break . |
| 5 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 7 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 8 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 9 | So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status . |
| 10 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 11 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 12 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 13 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 14 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 15 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 16 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 17 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 18 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 19 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 20 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 21 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 22 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 23 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 24 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 25 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 26 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 27 | Airacomet 44–22633 flew out of Edwards in the late 1940s , finally ending up on a target range along with some sister ‘ 59s . |
| 28 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
| 29 | He subjected both to repeated analysis , ending up with a version of Maria Luisa in which she is transformed into a sharp-beaked , staring owl , and of Francisco Lezcano in which he has metamorphosed into a dog . |
| 30 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |