Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether the schemes of work have been written up ; |
| 2 | At least two whales believed to have been affected by sonar have been washed up dead on the beach at Abu Dhabi . |
| 3 | New services for adult survivors of sexual abuse have been set up . |
| 4 | Collection points for paper — from quality photocopier paper to newspapers — aluminium cans , glass and plastic waste have been set up in towns and cities as well as industrial sites and offices . |
| 5 | The points raised in your meeting have been taken up by Councillor , Lothian Regional Council , who has also been in contact with me . |
| 6 | The issues of health and safety have been taken up by trade unions in the P & o ferries dispute , and the transport strikes of 1989 . |
| 7 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |
| 8 | Once the activities of an organisation have been divided up , they need to be coordinated and this becomes more difficult with the complexity of the organisation 's activities . |
| 9 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |
| 10 | CANNON and Ball have been lined up as the latest Christmas cracker for North-East pantomime fans . |
| 11 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 12 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 13 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 14 | Deficiencies in this area have been summed up by Maxwell in his review of junior-school reading in Scottish schools . |
| 15 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 16 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 17 | Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill . |
| 18 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 19 | Thousands of ostraka have been dug up , the most famous being a batch of 191 with Themistocles 's name inscribed on them by only four separate hands — either fraud or an anti-Themistocles hit squad ensuring that the illiterate did not miss the chance to vote . |
| 20 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 21 | At the same time , the teleological elements in Marx 's thought have been given up ; there is no single line of development passing through necessary stages to the attainment of socialism . |
| 22 | Proposals for acquisition of land from Abbey Church have been drawn up including investigation of the costs of altering the pavement and boundary wall . |
| 23 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | A significant number have been brought up in children 's homes themselves . |
| 25 | The Christian foundations of Western culture have been torn up and discarded . |
| 26 | Of seven patients whose percutaneous cholecystolithotomy failed because of residual cystic duct stones , only two were advised to undergo cholecystectomy and the remainder have been followed up for a median of 14 months . |
| 27 | The board have been set up by the Countryside Commission , West and East Sussex Country Councils and the 11 borough and district councils in the area . |