Example sentences of "that [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 2 | Here 's news for parents who find that bringing up children is more tricky than they thought . |
| 3 | The old bullying manner is completely gone ; we now find a persuasive , informal atmosphere , supported by illustrations which reflect the text in their message that bringing up babies is hair-raising , maybe , but lots of fun for everyone — just as the clinical photographs and chaste drawings of the old baby books reflect their atmosphere of stern duty . |
| 4 | On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received . |
| 5 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 6 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 7 | Deeper analysis , however , shows that flagging up ‘ Private — No Entry ’ neatly forecloses any discussion of causes as opposed to symptoms . |
| 8 | As the picture shows , Mrs Perdigao ( right , with the wife of President Mario Soares , left , at the prize-winning ceremony ) took the view that turning up is the key to victory . |
| 9 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
| 10 | Not for the first time Charles reflected that growing up is a myth ; getting older is just an intenser form of childhood . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't stand all that c**p ! ’ says David as he rejects the notion that growing up in Glasgow 's East End was hard . |
| 12 | But their leaders thought Germany had too much on its plate to change its definition of nationality and that holding up the asylum reform for that would cost them too many votes . |
| 13 | A snag is that breaking up the network into such small pieces might produce large diseconomies of scale in buying rolling-stock . |
| 14 | Little did he realise that doubling up 63 times produces an astronomical total ( 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 ) ; there was n't that much corn in the entire world ! |
| 15 | Well they 're down , that 's that road that running up |
| 16 | His teenage resolution was shared by many young refugees , though when it came to offering their services they found that joining up was not as simple as the recruiting posters had led them to believe . |
| 17 | No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy . |
| 18 | Yet in a former Durham pit village , although all had either been made redundant or been forced out of work by ill-health , a group of miners were so sustained by the community network of neighbours and relatives that giving up work seemed a positive blessing . |
| 19 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 20 | What one can be absolutely sure about is that giving up does the other side 's work for them , and ruins all your own possible futures and other people 's as well . |
| 21 | The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits . |
| 22 | My husband actually said to me that giving up smoking was easy because he 's done it plenty of times . |
| 23 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 24 | I DO N'T agree that putting up armed roadblocks in Britain is giving in to the IRA . |
| 25 | The Japanese government was aware that putting up $3 billion to help Korea service its large foreign debt was going to be in the long-term interests of the many Japanese companies with investments and joint ventures in Korea . |
| 26 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
| 27 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
| 28 | It 's highly unlikely that summing up a single column of numbers . |
| 29 | Conversely , while the Act provides that dividing up residential units to create more does specifically require consent , nothing is said about reducing the number of residential units or , for that matter , splitting or amalgamating any other type of unit of use . |
| 30 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |