Example sentences of "been [verb] up [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 2 | Seven houses which were bought and then left derelict for years by Robert Maxwell , have been opened up again to potential buyers . |
| 3 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 4 | The poster has also been put up closer to other inner city trouble spots — the Meadowell Estate in Newcastle for example . |
| 5 | The Ethiopian revolution of 1974 , which toppled Emperor Hailé Sellassié , postponed Ethiopian agitation about the obelisk , but this has now been taken up again with renewed force . |
| 6 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |