Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " 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 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 3 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 4 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 5 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 6 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 7 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 8 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 9 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Current debates on lesbian ‘ dress sense ’ are opening up more possibilities for experiment with image . |
| 14 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 15 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 16 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 19 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 20 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 21 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 22 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 27 | The housing tenure variables which are picking up any supply side effects on the offer probabilities via mobility effects have the expected signs but most are insignificant . |
| 28 | We 're bringing up new nomes , he thought . |
| 29 | We 're picking up new habits all the time . |
| 30 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |