Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime . |
| 32 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 33 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 34 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 35 | We have to rely on other resources , such as the network of informers that we have built up within the trade . |
| 36 | If the mussel is eaten by an animal or by a person , the poisons that have built up inside the mollusc may prove fatal . |
| 37 | The occasion is the 25th birthday of the U-K owners club and around half of its 1,300 active members have turned up for the celebrations at Silverstone . |
| 38 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 39 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
| 40 | A GROUP of Belfast residents have moved up in the world — by moving down three or four flights of concrete stairs . |
| 41 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
| 42 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
| 43 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 44 | In Europe many children have visited another country before their tenth birthday , and generations have grown up with the expectation of travel . |
| 45 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 46 | Quite a number of the musicians who are at home in the ‘ renewal ’ idiom have grown up outside the Church . |
| 47 | According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients . |
| 48 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 49 | the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another . |
| 50 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 51 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 52 | If political imperatives dictate further and unpredictable shifts towards shorter maturities in future , the result will be to disrupt all the different credit markets ( in interest-rate derivatives , corporate debt and mortgage-backed securities , for example ) that have grown up around the Treasury 's vast borrowing schedule . |
| 53 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 54 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 55 | Town centres have grown up around the market place over many generations . |
| 56 | Now markets have opened up as a result of making desks ; we now design and produce complete study and library schemes , designed to fit . |
| 57 | You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus . |
| 58 | ( As long as the heaving green adumbrates the land , as long as time has refused to be some time but always now , as long as the humungus titles have zipped up from the seam between sea and sky , as long … ) |
| 59 | They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia . |
| 60 | I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank . |