Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are many new avenues opening up for qualified staff in areas which have not traditionally been associated with nursing . |
| 2 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 3 | Indications of the lasting potential of workwear comes with the news that the traditional companies are now opening up to new design suggestions coming from the UK . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The brine shrimps will grow during the course of the next 5 to 6 weeks , becoming up to 1 cm long . |
| 6 | That sensitivity rises when they are ovulating , becoming up to 10,000 times more acute than at menstruation . |
| 7 | Will he urge the chairman to carry out a study of the economics of mining anthracite from small drift mines employing up to 75 people because many believe that mined in that way , anthracite could be extremely saleable and competitive in relation to both opencast operations and imports of Chinese coal ? |
| 8 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 9 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 10 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 11 | Next to the gardens , there will be a sports and recreation arena seating up to 12,000 people , while brand new tennis facilities at the Oberhausen Tennis Club reflect Germany 's growing enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 12 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 13 | The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments . |
| 14 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 15 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 16 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 17 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 18 | But this has not been matched by an increased commitment to capital expenditure and Mr Jordan expressed concern that while most member companies had weathered the recession ‘ surviving companies are probably not investing sufficiently in keeping up with technological progress ’ . |
| 19 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 20 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 21 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 22 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 23 | In most of these countries there 's now a price tag on these toys cum- objets d'art and they are even ending up in rarefied art galleries . |
| 24 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 25 | ULSTER spacers have been shy about signing up for inter-galactic travel . |
| 26 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |
| 27 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 28 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | V Winding up of unregistered companies |
| 30 | He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies . |