Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Every month the authorities are issuing up to 14,000 new business permits , many of them for shops and stalls . |
| 2 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | New cities are pushing up like mushrooms to replace the old . |
| 5 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 6 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 7 | Opposition groups are springing up like mushrooms , calling ever more boldly and openly for reforms — freedom of opinion , democracy , justice , freedom to travel . |
| 8 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 9 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 10 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 11 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 12 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 13 | We have both got arthritis in our hands and both our husbands are coming up to retirement age . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | HELP the Aged 's shops are warming up for winter with a special promotion of woollies , wellies and waterproofs . |
| 16 | The next column is going up 1 , 3 , 5 so the next will be 7 and the £s are going up in ones . |
| 17 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 18 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 19 | ‘ One needs to recognise that seven to eight-year-olds are watching up to about 8pm and 12-year-olds until 10pm . ’ |
| 20 | And now drinkers are turning up in droves . |
| 21 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 22 | ‘ Loads of kids were coming up to us and complaining that their dads were getting on their backs about their garages being full of paper . |
| 23 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 24 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 25 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 26 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 27 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 28 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 29 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 30 | Carl and his brothers were playing up around Jackson , Tennessee , and we called it honky-tonk music . |