Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 2 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 3 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 5 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 6 | A TEENAGER has been locked up for burgling the home of a mother-to-be . |
| 7 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 8 | Although the song has been cleaned up for the video ( sucker is the substituted word ) , and some sentences are left out completely , the track is funky enough to hold up instrumentally . |
| 9 | At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year . |
| 10 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 11 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 12 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 13 | Because of the sensitive nature of the police inquiries , a direct line has been set up for women to contact Gloucestershire detectives , based in Bristol . |
| 14 | They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction . |
| 15 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 16 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 17 | Of seven patients whose percutaneous cholecystolithotomy failed because of residual cystic duct stones , only two were advised to undergo cholecystectomy and the remainder have been followed up for a median of 14 months . |
| 18 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 19 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 20 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 21 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |