Example sentences of "had been [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 3 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 4 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 5 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 6 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 7 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 8 | The initialling of the agreement , reached in principle in October 1991 [ see pp. 38541-42 ] , had been held up by legal objections raised in December [ see p. 38691 ] by the EC 's European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) . |
| 9 | A service accord had been held up by developing countries , who feared that liberalization would allow Western financial companies to cripple newly established indigenous financial service industries . |
| 10 | The measure , which had been drawn up by congressional leaders and administration officials and approved by the House of Representatives on Nov. 1 by 382 votes to 37 , represented an alternative to the minimum wage bill passed by Congress in May and vetoed by President Bush . |
| 11 | The IPCC had been set up under United Nations auspices following the November 1988 world climate conference [ see p. 36784 ] and was due to meet again in August 1990 in Stockholm . |
| 12 | Local businesses responded generously to an appeal from School , and a generous grant was received from a fund which had been set up by leading industrialists to help Independent Schools to provide buildings and equipment for Scientific teaching and research . |
| 13 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 14 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 15 | A joint government and opposition commission had been set up in late September with the aim of preventing a repeat of the first-round chaos ; however , two opposition parties withdrew from the commission on Oct. 11 . |
| 16 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 17 | The devout and cultured Margaret had been brought up in Anglo-Norman ways and persuaded her husband to speak English rather than Gaelic . |
| 18 | In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments . |
| 19 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 20 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 21 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |