Example sentences of "are [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 2 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 3 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 4 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 5 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 6 | And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’ |
| 7 | In addition , lenders are drawing up mortgage rescue schemes , and are also examining ways of easing the terms of repayment to help people to stay in their homes . |
| 8 | The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface . |
| 9 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 10 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 11 | ‘ People are fed up hearing about our injuries , but you ca n't run away from the fact that we have 28 professionals , and half of those ca n't be considered . |
| 12 | ‘ German , Italian and French firms are picking up business while the British are being left behind , ’ he claims . |
| 13 | At the end of this season , when the achievements are totted up silverware or not Middlesbrough will have proved , once again , to be Cock of the North . |
| 14 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 15 | FUNERAL insurance plans are going up market . |
| 16 | Gloucester are flying up country tonight … to Tyneside for tomorrow 's game against Newcastle Gosforth … the cherry and whites are unchanged … and hoping for better luck than last year when they lost against the geordies … |
| 17 | The modern team are on a losing streak and are propping up Division One . |
| 18 | In direct contrast to all this hectic , hedonistic activity , over at the Marquee , The Red House Painters are propping up Belly with weary tenderness . |
| 19 | CHARTBUSTERS Boyz II Men are giving up sex for a year to stay on top of the job . |
| 20 | Correspondence on this issue in the BMJ would be helpful in clarifying whether doctors are giving up medicine altogether because of the lack of opportunity to train and work over shorter hours . |
| 21 | An advertisement appeared in the Scotsman drawing attention to the sale of " the whole valuable stock of letter-press and printing materials belonging to the Caledonian Press , who are giving up business with the premises No. 31 Hanover Street " . |
| 22 | My interviewees are taking up subject positions as readers as they talk to me . |
| 23 | They 're relocating from the wilds of Kingston and are taking up residence in swinging Carnaby Street . |
| 24 | Farmed out tourist attractions like Farm World on the Clwyedog Valley Heritage Trail are drumming up publicity for a new Crosville bus service for visitors . |
| 25 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
| 26 | ‘ Children in all social groups are storing up health problems by eating the wrong foods during their developing years . |
| 27 | Across the country , retailers are ringing up record amounts as Sunday shoppers pack their shops . |
| 28 | Through archaeological and other studies , buildings and other remains are yielding up information of centuries which were not , as thought by our grandfathers , representative solely of barbarianism and the negation of culture . |
| 29 | However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets . |
| 30 | , Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations . |