Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 2 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 3 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 4 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 5 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 6 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 7 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 8 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 9 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 10 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 11 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 12 | Further proposals for defence cuts had been drawn up by the armed forces in November 1989 on Cheney 's orders , in an effort to save some $180,000 million in the period to 1994 . |
| 13 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 14 | The elections were to a 360-member House of Representatives as stipulated under the Constitution which had been drawn up by the military and promulgated in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 15 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 16 | Plans to charge businesses for the pollution of Britain 's waterways have been drawn up by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) for implementation in July . |
| 17 | Although BAe was blamed , it was correct to point out that the corporate plan had been drawn up before the proposed merger . |
| 18 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 19 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 20 | A renewable environmental fund of 5 billion baht ( US$200 million ) has been set up under the new act . |
| 21 | In the light of that enthusiasm is the present Financial Secretary able to tell us how many employee share ownership trusts have been set up under the statutory provisions ? |
| 22 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 23 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 24 | Following a successful money advice service on the Birmingham lines which has been set up within the New Cross CAB in London , NACAB has started a pilot scheme for training CAB workers in money management matters by correspondence course . |
| 25 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 26 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 27 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 28 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 29 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 30 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |