Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A TEENAGER has been locked up for burgling the home of a mother-to-be . |
| 5 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 8 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 9 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 10 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 13 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 14 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
| 15 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 16 | The new company T&D Ceratec has been set up for the manufacture , marketing and technical development of glass colours in Japan . |
| 17 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 18 | Over the next two weeks , it will be mailing details about the initiative through to its customers , including the new 0800 number that has been set up for anyone wishing to give or receive information about piracy . |
| 19 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 20 | Because of the sensitive nature of the police inquiries , a direct line has been set up for women to contact Gloucestershire detectives , based in Bristol . |
| 21 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 22 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 23 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Book Bargains Ltd , the chain of 10 specialist remainder shops , has been put up for sale by its founder and managing director , Philip Weatherburn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 29 | Now Millns is established as one of the most feared and effective fast bowlers on the county circuit , and he might well have been called up for England 's final Test at The Oval but for injury . |
| 30 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |