Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of some of the other developments outlined in the Treaty of Rome , a European Investment Bank , based in Luxembourg , had been set up immediately to provide capital for the future balanced development of the Community . |
| 2 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 3 | Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe . |
| 4 | This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ . |
| 5 | His papers show that contributors even included Thomas Trollope who lived in Rome , was Anthony 's elder brother and who , like him , had been brought up thoroughly to dislike Dissenters . |