Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 2 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 3 | That state sector has been made up of nationalized industries , and of extensive welfare services provided on the basis of need , and not on the basis of the ability to pay . |
| 4 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 5 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 6 | At court [ in the 17805 ] , where one is more constrained by etiquette , and old habits die hard , use of the baton has been kept up in grand ceremonial concerts . |
| 7 | She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines . |
| 8 | In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto . |
| 9 | The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists . |
| 10 | The national monopoly has disappeared and auctioning in France has been opened up to other Europeans , but auctioneers will remain officers appointed by the Minister of Justice . |
| 11 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 12 | The government decided in 1973 to promote nuclear power , but the idea has been held up by unresolved questions concerning the environment . |
| 13 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 14 | The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market . |
| 15 | Already a list has been drawn up by Italian clubs who intend to buy British following Gazza 's incredible impact . |
| 16 | This new board has been set up with equal representation from CGLI and BTEC to validate and examine courses for the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) . |
| 17 | A democratic , parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years . |
| 18 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 19 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
| 20 | This is only to be expected , since the Brasserie has been set up along similar lines to L'Auberge ( i.e. it has the same staff ) . |
| 21 | A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management . |
| 22 | The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation . |
| 23 | Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away . |
| 24 | ‘ There is a suggestion that the Act has been dreamed up by left-wing lunatics , when in fact it was devised by a Conservative government after wide consultation , ’ NACRO 's director Vivien Stern told a conference on young adult offenders last month . |
| 25 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 26 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 27 | In my day — why , Sècheron would have been swallowed up by inner suburbs clustering round the old U.N . |
| 28 | The creation of this literature in Latin involved men whose native language was either certainly or probably not Latin : Livius Andronicus ' first language was Greek ; Ennius had Oscan ; Naevius , being a Campanian , probably also spoke Oscan as a child ; Plautus must have been brought up on Umbrian , and Terence apparently started with Punic . |
| 29 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 30 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |