Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video .
2 One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 .
3 So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air
4 A check-list that would make a modern bird-watcher salivate was served up on the Elizabethan menu : ‘ the-food of heroes , fit for the palates of the great ’ , as Camden describes pewits , godwits , knot , and dotterel .
5 ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’
8 Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's
9 He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’
10 ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again .
11 What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable .
12 Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet .
13 Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer .
14 The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage .
15 ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance .
16 ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . )
17 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 .
18 Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence .
19 In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) .
20 Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) .
21 Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown .
22 She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series .
23 The implementation of an appraisal scheme , and pilot studies to develop the details , have been held up by the drawn out teachers ' dispute .
24 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 .
25 A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal .
26 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 ?
27 A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years .
28 Moscow also has trade missions in most Latin American capitals , and where trade has become at all significant joint inter-governmental commissions have been set up with the aim of promoting fulfilment of the trading agreements .
29 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 ) .
30 turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends .
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