Example sentences of "[been] [verb] up for " in BNC.
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1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
2 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
3 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
5 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
6 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
7 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
8 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
9 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
10 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
11 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
12 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
13 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
17 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
18 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
19 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
20 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
21 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
22 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
23 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
24 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
27 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
28 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
29 | ‘ No detailed programme has yet been drawn up for the production of the District Wide Plan . |
30 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |