Example sentences of "have been [verb] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 6 | The Blue Max Collection has been built up by Tony Bianchhi over 25 years as a film stunt pilot . |
| 7 | THE England and Wasps wing Simon Smith has been called up by London for their divisional match against the South-West at Imber Court tomorrow . |
| 8 | THE England and Wasps wing Simon Smith has been called up by London for their divisional match against the South-West at Imber Court tomorrow . |
| 9 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 10 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 11 | The shortfall has been made up by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum Society . |
| 12 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 13 | The Midland Bank has been mopped up by Hong Kong Shanghai and RBS , down 3p at 187p , could be the next target . |
| 14 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 15 | The letter from earlier in the year to the Chief Executive of the Council has been followed up by this department investigating its own use of peat — which is fairly limited . |
| 16 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 17 | A protest by badger lovers who chained themselves to railings at a Ministry of Agriculture culling centre has been broken up by police . |
| 18 | At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation . |
| 19 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 20 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 21 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 22 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 23 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 24 | His case has been taken up by Justice , the all- party law reform group . |
| 25 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 26 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 27 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 28 | The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists . |
| 29 | And , regrettably , this demand has been taken up by people everywhere and applied to themselves or their partners — sometimes with disastrous consequences in relationships and to sexual potency . |
| 30 | This formulation has been taken up by Poulantzas , Carchedi and others . |