Example sentences of "[verb] been put up " in BNC.

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1 NEARLY £5billion has been put up by 2.2million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed last night , making the sale one of the most popular privatisations .
2 Nearly £5 billion has been put up by 2.2 million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed , making the sale one of the most popular in the Government 's privatisation programme .
3 The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland .
4 At No 10 , a network of scaffolding has been put up during renovations to boost security .
5 Asterix has been put up under UnixWare , and will also announce full support for Hewlett-Packard 's OpenMail at UniForum .
6 The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director .
7 Book Bargains Ltd , the chain of 10 specialist remainder shops , has been put up for sale by its founder and managing director , Philip Weatherburn .
8 This motion has been put up this year because there are changing circumstances which really do require us to give elections to the C E C deeper consideration .
9 Number 47 , Nelson Square has been put up for sale , and I understand that a buyer is interested in the property , subject to a structural survey .
10 An advertising poster for the clothing company Benetton which features a burning car has been put up close to a housing estate notorious for joyriders .
11 Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser :
12 Ten thousand pounds has been put up by friends and neighbours together with the Community Action Trust .
13 SCOTT LITHGOW , the last major shipyard on the lower Clyde , has been put up for sale by its owners , Trafalgar House , the London-based property and engineering group .
14 He has been put up five pounds for a decisive 2length defeat of Wellknown Character and , as just about the most progressive horse in today 's field , he can scale this extra rung .
15 The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’
16 The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity .
17 He should have been put up against a wall and shot , if you ask me , for dereliction of duty .
18 Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases .
19 Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class .
20 Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian .
21 Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning .
22 The trestles had been put up and were covered with white tablecloths of American oilcloth .
23 The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts .
24 Patrick and Jane had been put up in a room in the Shelbourne Hotel which faced St Stephen 's Green .
25 Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne .
26 Danger notices had been put up and largely disregarded .
27 In earlier incidents , OMON units on Jan. 14 had briefly occupied a police station in Riga , and had tried to remove two of the barricades which had been put up by Latvians on main roads , bridges and around public buildings in response to events in Vilnius .
28 The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million .
29 Drips had been put up , pethidine given , stomach tubes passed .
30 Sefton Council prosecutor Robin Thomaides told South Sefton court : ‘ The signs had been put up without planning permission and were clearly visible to passing motorists . ’
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