Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 2 | In this sense an academic discipline has been built up with an explicitly political stance . |
| 3 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 4 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 5 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 6 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 7 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 8 | The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head . |
| 9 | The shift in the importance and growth of manufacturing within the national economy has been bound up with a similar change in the geography of manufacturing . |
| 10 | Samantha , 29 , has been signed up as a reporter for ITV 's London news bulletins from January . |
| 11 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 12 | The current status of computers and microcomputers in R&D , and the probable course of development in their use , is a more useful area of study and has been taken up by a group at Manchester Business School , UK ( Morse , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 14 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 15 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 16 | ‘ This year 's Autumn Statement has been drawn up against a background of continuing recession at home and renewed weakness abroad , ’ the Chancellor said . |
| 17 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 18 | Although this commentary appears on RSPB headed paper , has been drawn up by a community of interests , including CPRW . |
| 19 | In the case of Foresterhill , all the main clinical departments have given their support to the proposal — a proposal that has been drawn up by a multidisciplinary team . |
| 20 | A new code of conduct for street entertainers has been drawn up by a local authority . |
| 21 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 22 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |
| 23 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 24 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 25 | The Environmental Association of Tanzania ( ENATA ) has been set up by a group of professionals with skills in tackling environmental problems . |
| 26 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 27 | Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser : |
| 28 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 29 | THE one-time sleepy world of pensions has been woken up with a series of rude shocks . |
| 30 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |