Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 2 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 3 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 4 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 5 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 6 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 7 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 8 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 11 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 12 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 13 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 14 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 15 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 16 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 17 | After LIFESPAN has been started up on the host node for the first time , and after LIFESPAN startups following edits to the LIFESPAN configuration file , the following file must also be distributed to the remote Installation Directories : |
| 18 | Leslie , 32 , has been signed up as the latest leading lady in Dennis 's hit comedy Stay Lucky . |
| 19 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 20 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 21 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 22 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 23 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 24 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 25 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 26 | Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti . |
| 27 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 28 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 29 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 30 | Although the song has been cleaned up for the video ( sucker is the substituted word ) , and some sentences are left out completely , the track is funky enough to hold up instrumentally . |