Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Rentals take a pride in keeping up to date with new broadcasting technology . |
| 2 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 3 | Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers . |
| 4 | Keeping up to date with developments in your own specialty can go a long way to adding to your confidence . |
| 5 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 6 | At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work . |
| 7 | Keeping up to date with the latest product developments can be a full time job , particularly in the scientific world . |
| 8 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 9 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 10 | By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas . |
| 11 | Four activities , in , matter : the way in which teaching and learning are conducted , keeping up to date in a subject , applying a new technology and managing the sequence of review , improvement and change . |
| 12 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 13 | The tumour had recurred and he had four previous operations , ending up with anastomosis of duodenum to mid-transverse colon . |
| 14 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 15 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 16 | ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business . |
| 17 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 18 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 19 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 20 | I 'm supposed to me meeting up with halvard on sunday when he comes up to newcastle , but I think he left for england before I had time to mail him my phone number . |
| 21 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 22 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 23 | ‘ You know , with all these tragedies lining up in wait for us , we really should n't waste time . ’ |
| 24 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 25 | He saved one of the Signals Waafs from getting into trouble through not turning up for duty on time , simply by staying at his post until she finally did appear . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 27 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 28 | Going up in world of climbing ropes A Highland rope company is climbing to dizzy heights of success with its innovative product , the Smart Rope , which has rocked the international climbing world . |
| 29 | The significance of this will be apparent when it is realized that , while the sportsman is trying to get a sight of the tiger , the tiger in all probability is trying to stalk the sportsman , or is lying up in wait for him . |
| 30 | The Asian elephant is basically a jungle-living animal , lying up in shade during the day and feeding mostly when it gets cool . |