Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 2 | Much of the boost to profits came from pharmaceutical retailing , which has been built up almost from scratch since the E Moss chain of chemists was bought in 1991 . |
| 3 | Now firmly perched at the top of the Hollywood ‘ A-list ’ of actresses , it seems strange that her career has been made up entirely of films that really have n't been all that good . |
| 4 | Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut . |
| 5 | ‘ That bit about him putting his arm around the Queen has been blown up out of all proportion , ’ Fay Shaw said . |
| 6 | It has been taken up both by those who see in it an attack upon civilization as an unnatural cage in which man is incarcerated and by those who take it to be a defence of civilization as man 's natural home . |
| 7 | The complete , corrected raw data has been backed up on to cartridges which can be loaded by robot , and any files which are not online can be quickly recalled . |
| 8 | The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes . |
| 9 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 10 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 11 | An advertising poster for the clothing company Benetton which features a burning car has been put up close to a housing estate notorious for joyriders . |
| 12 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 13 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 14 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 15 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 16 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 17 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 18 | He thought the whole incident had been blown up out of proportion . |
| 19 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 20 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 21 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 22 | This gourmet 's challenge had been taken up successfully upon only one occasion , when a patron ordered elephant 's testicles on toast and the chef was forced to admit that he did n't have a bit of bread in the house . |
| 23 | When government stock issues had been taken up predominantly by the triad , there had been little need for anything much in the way of a " market " ; but the change in the structure of debt ownership led inevitably to the emergence of broking and jobbing practices which were to become institutionalised into the Stock Exchange . |
| 24 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |
| 25 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 26 | And all in the course of a social event that had been set up not by her but by Andrew . |
| 27 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 28 | A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state . |
| 29 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 30 | During the year , the new Revolutionary Government of the Whitsun Islands confiscated the property of the local branch that had been set up there by A. Layout Pty . |