Example sentences of "[been] [verb] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 2 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 3 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 4 | Alexander told her about the Venus of Arles , who had been dug up in the Roman circus there , classically graceful with both her arms , holding up the golden or marble apple . |
| 5 | Martin Flook , 19 , said he had twice been beaten up in the previous year by Ian Coombes , a passenger in the other vehicle , who was dating his ex-girlfriend . |
| 6 | The measure had been approved by the lower chamber on Dec. 1 , but had been held up in the upper house where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |