Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 2 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 3 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 4 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 5 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 6 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
| 7 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 8 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 9 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 10 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 11 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 12 | In addition , a number of titles from Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy and convenient Readers Packs . |
| 13 | Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese . |
| 14 | Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history . |
| 15 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 16 | Job shops have been set up on both sites , manned by trained staff . |
| 17 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 18 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 19 | Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman . |
| 20 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 21 | Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims . |
| 22 | Similar associations have been set up in other counties , and already national competitions are staged . |
| 23 | Illegal arms and bomb factories have been set up in many parts of northern India to fuel the conflicts . |
| 24 | Duty rotas of guardians , who may be called upon at short notice , have been set up in many areas for this purpose . |
| 25 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
| 26 | Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers . |
| 27 | Prior to 1974 these various activities took place in an uncoordinated manner , but , since then , budget committees have been set up in both houses . |
| 28 | The hotel itself is in fact two Regency buildings which have been opened up into one , so there are lots f nooks and crannies , small staircases and quiet corners to be explored . |
| 29 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |
| 30 | As we shall see , both options have been taken up in subsequent thinking . |