Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 2 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 3 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 4 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 5 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 6 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 7 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 8 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 9 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 10 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 11 | With Hitler 's tearing up of the Munich agreement , with the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the threat to Poland , British public opinion began to distrust Hitler 's word and the nature of nazism changed markedly . |
| 12 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 13 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 14 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 15 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 16 | Keeping up with the pace of change |
| 17 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 18 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 19 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 20 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 21 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 22 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 23 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 24 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 25 | Keeping up with the Joneses |
| 26 | Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss . ’ |
| 27 | If anything , hardware is n't keeping up with the demands of the kinds of software he 'd like to see . |
| 28 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 29 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 30 | So an important thing is being aware , keeping up with the news ? |