Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol .
2 His policies are to put up taxes and abolish mortgage income tax relief .
3 A recent policy statement from the AUT , Investing in the future : research and development in the universities , says that the overhead costs of research projects funded by government departments , research councils , industry and other bodies , are not being properly met and so these projects are eating up funds allocated by the Universities Funding Council .
4 FUNERAL insurance plans are going up market .
5 Some Age Concern groups are setting up schemes for home care , in cooperation with the local authority .
6 ‘ Children in all social groups are storing up health problems by eating the wrong foods during their developing years .
7 It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf .
8 In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials .
9 The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface .
10 Remember , while your Goblins are soaking up casualties your real troops are getting closer to the enemy .
11 As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it .
12 These companies are buying up genes , storing them in gene banks and patenting them .
13 , Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations .
14 Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations .
15 When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going .
16 AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash .
17 And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ?
18 But despite the difficulties of reaching the camps , relief workers and supplies are getting through , A doctor and a nurse from the British charity Oxfam are already at Ebenat camp , and Danish health workers are setting up health services for the 5000 people there .
19 A group of health authority staff , council officers and community workers are drawing up guidelines to help cut accidents by a third by the year 2000 .
20 In addition , lenders are drawing up mortgage rescue schemes , and are also examining ways of easing the terms of repayment to help people to stay in their homes .
21 Across the country , retailers are ringing up record amounts as Sunday shoppers pack their shops .
22 And the bus fares is going up Monday ?
23 The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’
24 Before I do that let me just digress and say one word about books , I 've had a few people ask me about books erm I gather that the distinguished Durham bookshops have sold out of my wonderful book but I gather that lorries are hurtling up motorways with
25 Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future .
26 This is why all the big Japanese firms are setting up research centres in America and Europe .
27 ‘ German , Italian and French firms are picking up business while the British are being left behind , ’ he claims .
28 In direct contrast to all this hectic , hedonistic activity , over at the Marquee , The Red House Painters are propping up Belly with weary tenderness .
29 Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’
30 Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 .
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