Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 2 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 3 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 4 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 5 | The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market . |
| 6 | Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims . |
| 7 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 8 | Zeinab had been brought up in this culture . |
| 9 | The ‘ social divisions ’ theme has been taken up in another way by some recent feminist writers who have been concerned to show not merely that many welfare provisions discriminate against women , but also that female services within the family and neighbourhood form crucial separate welfare systems , enhanced in importance when other systems fail or are withdrawn . |
| 10 | Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA . |
| 11 | It survives in some remaining large-scale engineering plants and in the pits and has also been taken up in public sector employment in the National Civil Service ( particularly at the Longbenton Head Office of the DHSS ) , the Health Service and Local Authorities . |
| 12 | As we shall see , both options have been taken up in subsequent thinking . |
| 13 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 14 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |