Example sentences of "have be [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accusing the media of ‘ confusing the issue ’ he said : ‘ The matter has been completely cleared up . |
| 2 | If the will has been properly drawn up , the dog 's legacy will be administered by an independent trustee . |
| 3 | Work has been temporarily held up as old drains are discovered and re-routed . |
| 4 | The naivety of Irish politicians in dealing with the foreign mining companies has been excellently summed up by O Faircheallaigh : Irish politicians ' ’ response … to this situation was to accept as valid the mining industry 's account of what it needed . |
| 5 | As a result the hierarchical structure of the state has been increasingly broken up by horizontal structures of working parties , ad hoc reviews , and above all , semi-autonomous government agencies ( see , e.g. Barker 1982 ) . |
| 6 | The second ground ( ’ knowing receipt and dealing ’ ) , has been neatly summed up by Bingham J : |
| 7 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 8 | With the development of the form of recklessness found in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 ( HL ) , which applies in this area ( Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 ( HL ) ) there are now authorities to the effect that manslaughter by gross negligence has been totally swallowed up by reckless manslaughter : Kong Cheuk Kwan v R ( 1985 ) 82 Cr App R 18 ( PC ) and Goodfellow ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 23 ( CA ) . |
| 9 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 10 | The bass has been beautifully set up , though , and traditional principles combined with components made to today 's criteria make this bass as valid and effective as it ever was . |
| 11 | He blames the crisis on the fact that the museum has been forced to pay for warders out of its own budget , which has meant that the sum of DM300,000 ( £103,000 ; $186,000 ) per year earmarked for acquisitions has been virtually used up . |
| 12 | With the colour changer now available , the whole thing has been greatly speeded up and this patterning has almost become fully automatic , at least when using only four colours . |
| 13 | The Signature 's neck feels glossier , and the action at the bridge has been better set up so that the strings lie well above the ashtray 's sides ; otherwise both guitars are very playable , with good , low nuts and buzz-free actions . |
| 14 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 15 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 16 | She says I intend going to Strasbourg on Monday to argue that this report has been irresponsibly drawn up . |
| 17 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 18 | She 'd been badly beaten up , poor kid . |
| 19 | Incredible as it seemed , she 'd been too caught up in her own unhappiness to give a second 's thought to the play , which was due to open that very evening . |
| 20 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 21 | She must have been decently brought up . ’ |
| 22 | Well if Dan had n't rung then I 'd have been extremely fed up . |
| 23 | He must have been more fed up than most at the defeat after opening the scoring in the 13th minute , his first goal of the season . |
| 24 | My kit being near the casualty ( by now conscious ) , I thought it may have been mistakenly picked up . |
| 25 | Stalin therefore becomes the authentic Marxist , able to deal with specific historical circumstances , as against Trotsky who is regarded as having been hopelessly caught up with the a priori universalism of an abstract Marxism . |
| 26 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 27 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 28 | The agent was older than her father , but Hyacinth had been well brought up , and at least it was an escape from the national chairman ; prettily she agreed to dance with him . |
| 29 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 30 | She had been magically conjured up out of dream words and dulcimer sounds and trees of spice , a creature from a pleasure-dome he had not yet seen , a Queen of Pleasures brought to life just for him , just for now . |