Example sentences of "is [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 4 | These diseases are common in areas er where an out pouring of water from the individual is squared up with a ou , out pouring of people into the water , then you can appreciate that that transmission is very er , readily promoted under those circumstances . |
| 5 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 6 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 7 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 8 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 9 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 10 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 11 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 12 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 13 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 14 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 15 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 16 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 17 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 18 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 19 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 20 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 21 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 22 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 23 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 24 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 25 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 26 | The old , old fashion ! ( 2 ) The fashion that came in with our first garments , and will last unchanged until our race has run its course , and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll ( 3 ) . |
| 27 | By the end this quartet depart the stage in a halting dance of death and Trevitt is rolled up in a carpet , leaving Bristow alone without partner or diary . |
| 28 | The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne . |
| 29 | The knot of hair at the back of the neck is , in some of the paintings , incorporated in an almost full-face view , and the back of the shoulder is tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 30 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |