Example sentences of "be [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 3 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 4 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 5 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 6 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 7 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 8 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 9 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 10 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 11 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 12 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 13 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 14 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 15 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 16 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 17 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 18 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 19 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 20 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 21 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 22 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 23 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 24 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 25 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 26 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 27 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a brain tumour association as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against cancer . |
| 28 | BEREAVED parents Roy and Linda Grainger are to set up a support group as a tribute to their little girl who lost her battle against brain cancer . |
| 29 | The club are to set up an office where tickets will be available from 9.30am-noon from Monday to Thursday . |
| 30 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |