Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 2 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 3 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 4 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward . |
| 7 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 8 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 9 | Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept . |
| 10 | Simple commands have been used to set up a recording system , add data to it , change its structure and produce reports . |
| 11 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 12 | The backlight button or manual iris control has been used to open up the lens aperture in order to give the foreground subject the correct exposure . |
| 13 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 14 | The two players whose numbers have been called pick up the hockey sticks , and the first one to hit the ball gets the point . |
| 15 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 16 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 18 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 19 | They had even been forced to give up the prestigious Company barge , unable to afford the cost of its repair and the wages of the bargemaster . |
| 20 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 21 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 22 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |