Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what 's happening up here , we 're going up in hundreds . |
| 2 | Right you started so you 're going up in hundreds , it 's two squares at a time , but only one hundred for each two squares . |
| 3 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 4 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Things are hotting up in local classrooms |
| 9 | Suddenly the lack of sleep and tension seemed to be catching up in one great wave of dizziness . |
| 10 | Sparta 'll be coming up in five minutes exactly . ’ |
| 11 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 12 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 13 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 16 | Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there . |
| 17 | The latest accounts from the Greenwich and Cumberland building societies usefully illustrate how the residential property market is holding up in different parts of the UK . |
| 18 | It exploits the fact that certain kinds of molecule are capable of ‘ polymerizing ’ , that is joining up in long chains of indefinite length . |
| 19 | The latest scientific investigations into how many calories the average Briton is burning up in this modern labour-saving , sedentary age are yielding somewhat depressing indications . |
| 20 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |