Example sentences of "are [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 3 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 4 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 5 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 6 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 7 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 8 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 9 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 10 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 11 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 12 | As Christmas approaches goods like these are turning up at one day sales , car boot sales and market stalls . |
| 13 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 14 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 15 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 16 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 17 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 18 | Things are hotting up in local classrooms |
| 19 | Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time . |
| 20 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 21 | Instead , market share has been stolen from law-abiding retailers and the smaller shops , many of which have lost and are losing up to 50 per cent . |
| 22 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 23 | Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs . |
| 24 | Every month the authorities are issuing up to 14,000 new business permits , many of them for shops and stalls . |
| 25 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |
| 26 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 27 | ‘ But you are making up for that today , ’ said Dr Neil gravely , his mouth twitching , particularly when she looked at him , a question on her pretty face , her mouth being too full for further speech . |
| 28 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 29 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 30 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |