Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 4 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 5 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 6 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 7 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 8 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 9 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 10 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 11 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 12 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 13 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 14 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 15 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 16 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 17 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 18 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 19 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 20 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 21 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 22 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 23 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 24 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 25 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 26 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 27 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 28 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 29 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 30 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |