Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [art] [noun] " 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 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 8 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 9 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 10 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 13 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 14 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 15 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 16 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 17 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 18 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 19 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 20 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 21 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 27 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 28 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 29 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 30 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |