Example sentences of "be [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 2 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
| 3 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 4 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 5 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 6 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 7 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 8 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 9 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 10 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 11 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 12 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 14 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 15 | In the meantime , the band themselves will be pressing up a limited edition single in December for their two Irish dates in Dublin and Belfast . |
| 16 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |
| 17 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 18 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 19 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 20 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 21 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 22 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
| 23 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 24 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 25 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) Hilton Mining ( Harvard OTC ) " Between ourselves , somebody may be picking up a huge stake in this company . |
| 27 | It is possible , of course , to imagine that the first of these sentences describes one event and the second describes another , quite unrelated , event ( so the person identified as ‘ a mother ’ may be picking up a chair in the course of cleaning a room ) . |
| 28 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 29 | Whatever the critics say it seems a lot of people will be picking up a copy just to see what might have happened to the De Winters . |
| 30 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |