Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 2 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 3 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 4 | Cutting large areas of privet was accomplished , by ut the larger cutting sweeps of the 523H would have been welcome to speed up the task . |
| 5 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 6 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 7 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been busy mopping up a crowd of drug smugglers . ’ |
| 9 | One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory . |
| 10 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 12 | Although badly injured with four bullets inside him , PC Kelly had been able to call up the SOS code number , ‘ ten nine , ten nine ’ . |
| 13 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 14 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 15 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 16 | ‘ He and John have n't been able to strike up an amicable relationship since and David does n't seem to figure in the coach 's plans , ’ said chairman Robinson . |
| 17 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 18 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 19 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 20 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 21 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 22 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |
| 23 | But companies have been slow to take up the money . |
| 24 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 25 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 26 | Manchester United have been ready to set up a £3m deal for Pearce with former Forest mid-field star Neil Webb returning to the City Ground . |