Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 2 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 3 | Twenty five enterprise zones have been designated up to May 1990 throughout the UK . |
| 4 | The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 5 | The steady increase in complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's Report has continued , 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's CSO figures showed that the July total had been revised up to £2,487million from the previous £2,225 million figure . |
| 7 | It noted that non-oil economic growth in the first quarter had been revised up to 0.7pc . |
| 8 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 9 | And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in . |
| 10 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 11 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 12 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 13 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 14 | ‘ For Christ 's sake — because I believe Tweed is innocent , that he 's been framed up to the hilt . |
| 15 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 16 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 17 | What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists , and which have been uncovered up to now ? |
| 18 | Acidifying droplets can reduce the growth of trees and crops , at concentrations far lower , than had been suspected up to now . |
| 19 | Experiments have been using deuterium alone , and the temperature of the plasma has been pushed up to 300 million degrees . |
| 20 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 21 | Laboratory studies have been made up to about 10 6 bars , at which pressures molecular hydrogen is still liquid even at 170 K. However , such pressures are encountered at depths of only a few 1000 km below the clouds , and therefore theoretical studies have to be used to obtain the phase-diagram at greater pressures . |
| 22 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 23 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 24 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 25 | The national monopoly has disappeared and auctioning in France has been opened up to other Europeans , but auctioneers will remain officers appointed by the Minister of Justice . |
| 26 | This means that , for the first time , the whole SVQ framework has been opened up to slower learners and those without formal qualifications . |
| 27 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 28 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 29 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 30 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |