Example sentences of "[adj] have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British infancy research has a well-established National , European and International reputation , and this has been built up by many eminent researchers working separately at their different institutions . |
| 2 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 3 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 4 | Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA . |
| 5 | This had been set up in September 1989 as a joint venture between Radio Moscow and a Franco-Italian consortium , and had been provided with technical equipment and premises at the Moscow Radio building . |
| 6 | Torrent and Pastoral have been giving up to 7.5t/ha ( 3t/acre ) , says Nick Matthews of Chichester merchant Bartholomews . |
| 7 | A NEW charity to help care for the terminally ill has been set up in Liverpool . |
| 8 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 9 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 10 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 11 | All have been followed up for at least two years . |
| 12 | All have been followed up for at least 5 years . |
| 13 | The Beijing-based Unix System Technology China Ltd has been set up in collaboration with the responsible government agency , the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industries ( MMEI ) . |
| 14 | Nearly £5 billion has been put up by 2.2 million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed , making the sale one of the most popular in the Government 's privatisation programme . |
| 15 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 16 | In addition , a number of titles from Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy and convenient Readers Packs . |
| 17 | Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese . |
| 18 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 19 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 20 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 21 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 22 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 23 | ICI can not argue that the buyers of its assets would all be rogues , especially now that the party-time stockmarkets of the late 1980s have been sobered up by recession . |