Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 3 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 4 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 5 | HOSPITALS , community centres and local charities are set to reap the rewards from the work of local youths who are taking up the Post Office Community Challenge . |
| 6 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 7 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 8 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 9 | While this survey is an invaluable tool when you are weighing up the pros and cons of each lender , it provides no guarantee that the lenders who have performed well will continue to do so . |
| 10 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 11 | Mr. Anderson : If we are to fill up the beds in our very welcome Holiday Inn in Swansea , we need , as the Secretary of State will be aware , to clean up Swansea bay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As a result of the Housing Act 1988 and the introduction of shorthold tenancies , we are witnessing rapid growth in the number of shorthold and assured tenancies being let by private landlords — so much so , that at last they are taking up the slack created by the number of secure tenancies . |
| 14 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 15 | But with the number of claims soaring , insurers now reckon they are losing money — so they are tightening up the rules or backing out altogether . |
| 16 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 17 | They are setting up the Horsewatch operation in Hampshire to protect the animals after a pony was attacked with a fence post . |
| 18 | Thereafter , a physiological change may cause them to develop a preference for fresher water so they are lured up the rivers , just as spiny lobsters , at a particular time of the year , are drawn to lower temperatures . |
| 19 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co last week said they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 20 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 21 | Obviously , to obtain a five per cent operating profit margin means they are marking up the cost price of products by far more than five per cent . |
| 22 | And the dolphins high-protein diet makes them especially vulnerable to environmental contaminants which become increasingly concentrated as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 23 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 24 | If they think forcing strange food down children 's throats will enhance good race relations , then they are barking up the wrong tree . |