Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 2 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |
| 3 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 4 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 5 | British infancy research has a well-established National , European and International reputation , and this has been built up by many eminent researchers working separately at their different institutions . |
| 6 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 7 | At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation . |
| 8 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 9 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 10 | Sweat from his hand began to soften the crisp white document that had been drawn up after many long night-time meetings when they had all finally agreed to form a co-operative . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 12 | They must have been washed up on this ancient beach after being torn from their moorings , perhaps by a storm . |
| 13 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 14 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 15 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 16 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 17 | The latter has now been swallowed up by extreme political shifts and disputes . |
| 18 | The new company Securicor Okhrana St Petersburg has been set up with four Russian partners and the UK subsidiary of a Finnish bank . |
| 19 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 20 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This story has a happy ending , because we learned later that the peregrine had been paired up with another Russian visitor of the same species . |
| 23 | By then he had already been ‘ discovered ’ and had been taken up by two well-known Cornishmen , Sir Charles Lemon of Truro and J.T. Treffrey of Fowey . |
| 24 | This question has not been taken up in any serious way . |
| 25 | At court [ in the 17805 ] , where one is more constrained by etiquette , and old habits die hard , use of the baton has been kept up in grand ceremonial concerts . |
| 26 | What is true is that , in recent years , such actions have been backed up by sophisticated political lobbying and scientific enquiry that have added strength to the organization 's dramatic calls for change . |