Example sentences of "have been [adj] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 2 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 3 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 4 | Cutting large areas of privet was accomplished , by ut the larger cutting sweeps of the 523H would have been welcome to speed up the task . |
| 5 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 6 | One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory . |
| 7 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 8 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 9 | Although badly injured with four bullets inside him , PC Kelly had been able to call up the SOS code number , ‘ ten nine , ten nine ’ . |
| 10 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 11 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 12 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been busy mopping up a crowd of drug smugglers . ’ |
| 14 | But companies have been slow to take up the money . |
| 15 | Manchester United have been ready to set up a £3m deal for Pearce with former Forest mid-field star Neil Webb returning to the City Ground . |
| 16 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |