Example sentences of "it have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 2 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 3 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 4 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 5 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 6 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 7 | Such has been the success of the piece on a short provincial tour , that it has been snapped up by The Globe in the centre of London 's theatreland . |
| 8 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 11 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 12 | It has been set up in association with the Scottish Institute of Human Relations in honour of the institute 's founder , the late Dr JD ( Jock ) Sutherland . |
| 13 | In a three-quarter view of the head the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen as in a profile view , and the double outline of the foremost shoulder gives the impression that the top of it has been tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 14 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |
| 15 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 16 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 17 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 18 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 19 | The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] . |
| 20 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 21 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 22 | It 's been fixed up with your office . |
| 23 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 26 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ Sex is important to everybody but I think it 's been blown up into a thing that you must have and do . ’ |
| 29 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 30 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |