Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 2 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 3 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 4 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 5 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 8 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 9 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 10 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In this sense an academic discipline has been built up with an explicitly political stance . |
| 14 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 15 | The Electrochemical Technology business has been built up since 1981 to capitalize on ICI 's expertise in chlor-alkali production and electrochemistry. the FM21 membrane cell has been sold since that year , mainly as part of a chlor-alkali production package , but recent developments have led to its use in the manufacture of more complex speciality or ‘ effect ’ chemicals . |
| 16 | The Queen of the Night has knowledge of her domain , but her knowledge has been built up by allowing the quality of the dark to touch her , and the nature of its creatures to awaken a response in her own being . |
| 17 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 18 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 19 | British infancy research has a well-established National , European and International reputation , and this has been built up by many eminent researchers working separately at their different institutions . |
| 20 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 21 | The Blue Max Collection has been built up by Tony Bianchhi over 25 years as a film stunt pilot . |
| 22 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 23 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 24 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 25 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 26 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 27 | Much of the tradition of Anglican church music has been built up in cathedrals and in the cathedral-style worship of some parish churches . |
| 28 | A TEENAGER has been locked up for burgling the home of a mother-to-be . |
| 29 | GREEN Card actor Gerard Depardieu 's eldest son , Guillaume , 22 , has been roughed up in jail while awaiting trial on drug charges , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 30 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |