Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
| 8 | Even more radically , a number of trail-blazing organisations are setting up self-managed work groups , some of them leaderless . |
| 9 | Pickers are turning up all the time — this lady expects to be paid about five pounds for her blossoms . |
| 10 | The section on the management of theatres and arts facilities explains that certain community-based facilities may be exempt and that , provided that subsidies are put up front and form part of the tender process , they may be allowed , yet it is appropriate that there should be tendering for the management of theatres such as the Derngate in Northampton . |
| 11 | Buildings are put up first . |
| 12 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 13 | There may well be other regions of the universe , or other universes ( whatever that may mean ) , in which all the dimensions are curled up small or in which more than four dimensions are nearly flat , but there would be no intelligent beings in such regions to observe the different number of effective dimensions . |
| 14 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 15 | And Northamptonshire 's environmental health officers are backing up that message . |
| 16 | ( Actions are to hold up five fingers until at ‘ sizzle ’ the fingers begin waving . |
| 17 | Many clones are being dispatched in flimsy packaging , so minor problems which occur in transit — such as loose cables — mean that some machines are turning up dead on arrival . |
| 18 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 19 | The technique in the experiments is to set up two photo-detectors on either side of the calcium or mercury source , preceded immediately by polarisers that allow through only those photons polarised in one direction ( Figure 1a ) . |
| 20 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Partial compensation ’ will delight some : the majority of items were bought up wholesale for between a hundred and a thousand roubles , and inflation makes the clearance sale easier at any rate , it would make life easier for privileged auction attendees from the State Chamber of Cultural and Natural Heritage . |
| 23 | Three of the rafters were washed up unconscious on the river bank . |
| 24 | With increasing age , strength , and experience , most of them probably inherit a vacated range , take one over , or succeed in establishing a new community where younger females are setting up new ranges . |
| 25 | Tcket prices are going up 3 pounds for leeds fans ( from 7 to 10 for terraces ) but only 2 pounds for the home fans ( who have some special card apparently ) Could turn out to be quite an expensive trip … |
| 26 | As the corporations were wound up some of the houses passed into private ownership . |
| 27 | Its instructions were to buy up Polish land and estates for resale to German settlers at massively reduced prices . |
| 28 | Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that . |
| 29 | In the end an agreement on St Valentine 's Day 1979 was cobbled together of 9 per cent plus an extra £1 a week , but the stakes were going up all the time . |
| 30 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |