Example sentences of "have been [verb] up on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 2 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 3 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 4 | After LIFESPAN has been started up on the host node for the first time , and after LIFESPAN startups following edits to the LIFESPAN configuration file , the following file must also be distributed to the remote Installation Directories : |
| 5 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 6 | The following protocol for neonatal pain relief has been drawn up on the basis of a review of published literature , experience , and discussion with senior medical and nursing staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and other neonatal units . |
| 7 | The Law Society has issued guidance notes for equal opportunities in solicitors ' firms which reproduce a standard policy for their use which has been drawn up on the basis of recommendations of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 8 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 11 | She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore . |
| 12 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 13 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 14 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 15 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 16 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 17 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 18 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 19 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 20 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 21 | Even afterwards at Four Winds , where a marquee had been set up on the lawn , and the guests mingled , Merrill still saw the affair as a disjointed series of impressions . |
| 22 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 23 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 24 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 25 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 26 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 27 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 30 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |