Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Potential employers are lining up leading members of the ‘ Grey Guard ’ , who have dominated amateur cycling in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Homeowners are putting up barbed wire to keep out thieves in a city where burglaries have shot up by almost seventy percent . |
| 3 | The birds are marking up that window there ! |
| 4 | Volkswagen has seized an investment opportunity by buying Skoda , and other Western car manufacturers are setting up Western-style dealerships . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pay-per-view channels were buying up exclusive rights to the really big bouts and this left the regular channels desperate to find some way of increasing the number of championship fights . |
| 7 | Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions . |
| 8 | The wind is whistling up this and within seconds my face is frozen . |
| 9 | The big digger is holding up all the traffic . |
| 10 | Blood is made up millions of cells . |
| 11 | By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future . |
| 12 | His girlfriend was chatting up some big-shot drama critic at the time as well . |
| 13 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 14 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 15 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 16 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 17 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 18 | It was raining , his cowl was drawn up close . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A number of places in the faculty are taken up each year by students who are already , or are about to become , graduates in other disciplines . |
| 21 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
| 22 | British Telecom is putting up some £1 million toward the project including three hours free time each day on OTS . |
| 23 | The next column is going up 1 , 3 , 5 so the next will be 7 and the £s are going up in ones . |
| 24 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 25 | But the corridor is lit up both ways . |
| 26 | Since it carries the sole generator ( and hydraulic pump ) the left engine is fired up first . |
| 27 | The project has decimated the Amazon forest and led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians since their habitat was opened up 10 years ago . |
| 28 | Topaz was brought up short . |
| 29 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 30 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |