Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world .
32 This was the first time an Italian budget had been drawn up with the advice of European Community officials and approved by the EC Commission .
33 The following protocol for neonatal pain relief has been drawn up on the basis of a review of published literature , experience , and discussion with senior medical and nursing staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and other neonatal units .
34 The Law Society has issued guidance notes for equal opportunities in solicitors ' firms which reproduce a standard policy for their use which has been drawn up on the basis of recommendations of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality .
35 I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary .
36 The disclosure letter had been drawn up by the defendant on this belief and by its actions the plaintiff was estopped from complaining that the fact should have been included in the disclosure letter .
37 Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors .
38 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
39 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
40 Canon law , however , gave grounds for supporting that an incompetent king , ‘ rex inutilis ’ , could be required to abdicate , and the articles against the king , which may have been drawn up by the Bishop of Winchester , allege that his ‘ uselessness ’ had brought damage and destruction to the Church , people and realm of England .
41 The plan has been drawn up by the city council , British Waterways and the National Rivers Authority after months of negotiations .
42 The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter .
43 The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) .
44 This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) .
45 She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore .
46 You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love …
47 It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate .
48 On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window .
49 England have been shown up for the lack of quality in their line-up , although Gooch 's illness here , Michael Atherton 's illness in Calcutta and the stupidity of leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test and Atherton on the second Test all contributed to an unexpectedly one-sided contest .
50 There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent .
51 When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard .
52 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 .
53 Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty .
54 ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . )
55 Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month .
56 Chaps had been called up into the army , nearly all of them that worked with us , they were all on army reserve .
57 According to the trusty old BBC World Service our very own ‘ Gazza ’ Kelly has been called up into the RoI squad as a replacement for Kevin Moran .
58 A path had been worn up to the door .
59 The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd .
60 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 ) .
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