Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 32 | A renewable environmental fund of 5 billion baht ( US$200 million ) has been set up under the new act . |
| 33 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
| 34 | 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 ? |
| 35 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 36 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 37 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Following a successful money advice service on the Birmingham lines which has been set up within the New Cross CAB in London , NACAB has started a pilot scheme for training CAB workers in money management matters by correspondence course . |
| 40 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 41 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 42 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 43 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 44 | A new organization , the World Industry Council for the Environment ( WICE ) , has been set up by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) to lobby on environmental issues for business interests . |
| 45 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 46 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 47 | Monica rang lawyers at the Vicariate of Solidarity , which had been set up by the Catholic Church in 1975 and was by now Chile 's leading human rights organization . |
| 48 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 49 | Our own central social services inspectorate will be not only carrying out its own inspections , but also checking on the quality and systems of the arm's-length inspectorates that have been set up by the local authorities . |
| 50 | The NF-Environnement label has been set up by the National Consultative Committee for " Ecoproduct " Labelling , under chairmanship of MP Alain Brune . |
| 51 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 52 | Alp Action has been set up by the Geneva-based Bellerive Foundation , under the chairmanship of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan . |
| 53 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 54 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 55 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 56 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 57 | United fans have been brought up on the sublime skills of attackers like Best , Law , Charlton , Stuart Pearson , Jimmy Greenhoff and Frank Stapleton . |
| 58 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 59 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 60 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |