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Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways .
2	The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors .
3	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 .
4	They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful .
5	That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners .
6	Here , perhaps , all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains .
7	Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti .
8	Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’
9	A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels .
10	Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity .
11	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 .
12	Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ?
13	A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies .
14	What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed .
15	Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er
16	His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter .
17	A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail .
18	You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales .
19	Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) .
20	It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites .
21	His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw .
22	Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ?
23	At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore .
24	An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal .
25	‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater .
26	Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals .
27	Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology .
28	French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind .
29	Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in .
30	The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency .