Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 3 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 4 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 5 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 6 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 7 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 8 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 9 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 10 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
| 11 | Of seven patients whose percutaneous cholecystolithotomy failed because of residual cystic duct stones , only two were advised to undergo cholecystectomy and the remainder have been followed up for a median of 14 months . |
| 12 | These 85 patients have been followed up for a total of 583 person-years . |
| 13 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 14 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 15 | Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown . |
| 16 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 17 | She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series . |
| 18 | The implementation of an appraisal scheme , and pilot studies to develop the details , have been held up by the drawn out teachers ' dispute . |
| 19 | THE mutilated bodies of two British women tourists have been washed up on a deserted South African beach . |
| 20 | What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed . |
| 21 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 22 | In the light of that enthusiasm is the present Financial Secretary able to tell us how many employee share ownership trusts have been set up under the statutory provisions ? |
| 23 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 24 | Moscow also has trade missions in most Latin American capitals , and where trade has become at all significant joint inter-governmental commissions have been set up with the aim of promoting fulfilment of the trading agreements . |
| 25 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 26 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |
| 27 | Trust fund accounts have been set up for the protection of clients and their , and their moneys . |
| 28 | This information can be accessed by students and staff from their desktop computers ; in addition a number of special , easy to use ‘ Information Points ’ have been set up throughout the campus [ for example in the library , the Cottrell Foyer and the Pathfoot Resource Centre ] . |
| 29 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 30 | The board have been set up by the Countryside Commission , West and East Sussex Country Councils and the 11 borough and district councils in the area . |