Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 2 | Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers . |
| 3 | The revival in borrowing was concentrated on credit cards , suggesting that consumers are stepping up purchases of everyday items but are still reluctant to take on debt to finance household durables and cars . |
| 4 | COMPANIES that supply optical fibres to British Telecom are stepping up their efforts to cut the price of the fibres in the face of international competition . |
| 5 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 6 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 7 | Detectives are stepping up their hunt for a rapist who attacked a woman at Nottingham 's Music Festival at the weekend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Police are stepping up their hunt for two armed raiders who 've kidnapped and threatened shop managers in a spate of robberies . |
| 10 | Police are stepping up their hunt for a man who 's carried out a series of sexual attacks on women in the last seven months . |
| 11 | HEALTH watchdogs in Aberconwy are stepping up their pressure on Gwynedd Health Authority to ensure there is adequate weekend and night-time anaesthetic cover at Llandudno Hospital . |
| 12 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 13 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 14 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 15 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 16 | For the GDR 's ageing leadership , the political pressures are building up inexorably . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You are building up his arbitrary obedience to conscience instead of his understanding and acceptance of ethical standards . |
| 19 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 20 | That is one reason why companies like ICI and IBM are building up comprehensive communications programmes , internal as well as external which involve listening just as much as talking . |
| 21 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 22 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 23 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 24 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 25 | We are building up problems for ourselves . |
| 26 | The crowds are building up and doing things the American way . |
| 27 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 28 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 29 | But let's face it I mean if a lot of local authorities are in similar sorts of positions and a lot of balances are building up , well the money just might run away might n't it it 's happened before , I think it might happen again . |
| 30 | They are queueing up to offer properties to local authorities , according to Hal Pawson of the London Research Centre . |