Example sentences of "have been [verb] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 5 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 6 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 7 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 8 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 9 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 10 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 11 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 12 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 13 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 14 | Such has been the success of the piece on a short provincial tour , that it has been snapped up by The Globe in the centre of London 's theatreland . |
| 15 | The renewal of the annual licence has been held up by the Department of Technical Services ‘ Electrical Engineer and the Fire Brigade . |
| 16 | A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you . |
| 17 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 18 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |
| 19 | A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you . |
| 20 | The plan has been drawn up by the city council , British Waterways and the National Rivers Authority after months of negotiations . |
| 21 | A working group on ‘ Active Membership ’ has been set up by the section to explore ways of increasing campaigning by national members . |
| 22 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 23 | A SPECIAL hit-squad has been set up by the IRA to target top loyalists , according to the RUC . |
| 24 | Alp Action has been set up by the Geneva-based Bellerive Foundation , under the chairmanship of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan . |
| 25 | The NF-Environnement label has been set up by the National Consultative Committee for " Ecoproduct " Labelling , under chairmanship of MP Alain Brune . |
| 26 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 27 | And the Glass Pig has been set up by the Midsummer Charity Trust , which runs seven residential homes and farms in Herefordshire . |
| 28 | The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director . |
| 29 | This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) . |
| 30 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |