Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 2 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 3 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 4 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 5 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 6 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 7 | Got to stop and then you say you 're going up to middle class . |
| 8 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've made the accident story official , and now they 're covering up like mad . |
| 10 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 11 | So when you got pass there Ju do n't forget you say I am going up to middle class ! |
| 12 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 13 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 14 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 15 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 16 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 17 | Things are hotting up in local classrooms |
| 18 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 19 | You will soon be meeting up with other dogs and your pack instincts will come into their own . |
| 20 | Stevenson , a quick-moving , stocky northerner with a distinguished record in every possible branch of the Met , was rumoured to be going up to Assistant Commissioner just as soon as the present incumbent retired . |
| 21 | " You wo n't be riding up to High Tor any more , I suppose ? " |
| 22 | Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs . |
| 23 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 24 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 25 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 26 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 27 | And as if the elements were ganging up on defenceless human beings , half the neighbourhood around the bridge was woken up at 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday , 10 March by shouts of ‘ Fire ! ’ as a stable next to Sheppards ' workshops went up in flames . |
| 28 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 29 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 30 | I quoted reports of the quick friendships which were springing up between Burmese villagers and the BOR , and included the following paragraphs : |