Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that script has been built up over twenty years experience . |
| 2 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 3 | The picture painted by the Survey is one of a book provision system which is capable of coping remarkably well with the complexities of a Library whose collections have been built up over three centuries : a high proportion of requests are satisfied ; the great majority of items are delivered to readers without difficulty ; and the time taken for most items to be delivered is not only comparatively short , but , despite the fluctuating level of demand for printed books , shows little variation . |
| 4 | More than four hundred homes are going up over three years , the problem of teenage boredom could therefore worsen . |
| 5 | A strategy is to be drawn up so environmental issues are given equal priority , and to ensure the council 's response is consistent . |
| 6 | It can be called up fro vast databases , altered … what if … ? |
| 7 | Following his election as President of the Council for National Parks , Chris Bonington called for all the national parks to be set up as separate authorities as soon as possible , in line with the Government 's manifesto promise . |
| 8 | In these circumstances , it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day . |
| 9 | Nearly £38m is on offer , to be divided up over five years . |
| 10 | ‘ He gets stuck in — and that 's probably why he 's picked up so many knocks down the years . |
| 11 | The aim is to set up over 50 restaurants within the next five years and to increase to over 10O within 10 years . |
| 12 | If they find that one person or company is buying up too many newspapers — as has happened in Britain , for example — the Commission can stop that process , Mr Jayaweera said . |
| 13 | Robert 's is gone up over five pounds , theirs is a different kind of a house you see a parlour type |
| 14 | It was none too soon ; smoke-grey clouds scurried across the sky and even in the harbour the wind was whipping up little white-topped waves . |
| 15 | Yet even when she had been paid he would still have about double his normal wage — ten shillings , or even less in this village when the contract was drawn up about eighty years ago ; and there were the allowances in addition . |
| 16 | The Graduate School of Business was set up over 10 years ago by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie . |
| 17 | The flat fee , which has remained the same since the company was set up over three years ago , has proved to be a winner with both buyers and sellers . |
| 18 | A snail farm which was set up just three years ago is now the second largest in Britain . |
| 19 | Glenand was set up almost eleven years ago on the initiative of a group of local people to service the community , to provide jobs for local people and to provide training for young people in the Andersonstown and Glen Road areas ( hence the name — Glen And ) . |
| 20 | The difficulties of achieving comparability of sampling , measurement , and outcome criteria across cultures are enormous but have been addressed in the WHO 's transcultural schizophrenia research programme , where in one study a cross-sectional sample covering eight countries was followed up over two years . |
| 21 | Mansell stunned the Grand Prix race world when he revealed that he was packing up only four hours before he was due to start in his 178th Grand Prix . |