Example sentences of "it has been [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | A purpose will be to reassess the value of our penal system as it has been built up until now — but much more than that . |
| 3 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 4 | Make no mistake : nothing in the Bill will safeguard the interests of the employees of the Scottish Bus Group after it has been broken up and sold of , perhaps to the highest bidders . |
| 5 | Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut . |
| 6 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 7 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 8 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 9 | It has been drawn up following a widespread survey in the towns of Chelmsford , Southend and Colchester . |
| 10 | The parties are later sent by post either a summary decision or a full written decision as soon as it has been typed up and signed by the chairman , which is accompanied by information about applying for a review of the decision and of appealing to the Employment Appeal Tribunal . |
| 11 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 12 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 13 | Such has been the success of the piece on a short provincial tour , that it has been snapped up by The Globe in the centre of London 's theatreland . |
| 14 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 15 | In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto . |
| 16 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 17 | It has been taken up both by those who see in it an attack upon civilization as an unnatural cage in which man is incarcerated and by those who take it to be a defence of civilization as man 's natural home . |
| 18 | ‘ My knee feels all right when I am running , bit it has been swelling up slightly afterwards . |
| 19 | So , while it has been wound up , it concerns go marching only . |
| 20 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 21 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 22 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 23 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 24 | Kyte , who was a founding signatory of the appeal , says it has been set up ‘ to help finance long-term grass-roots reconstruction , and supports small groups of people in ‘ Yugoslavia' who are committed to feeding people , housing refugees , establishing playgroups for children , and to helping all those who refuse to fight . |
| 25 | It has been set up to ensure the future of small woodlands by finding markets for the produce of traditional management practices , such as coppicing , which also improve wildlife habitat . |
| 26 | Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else . |
| 27 | It has been set up in association with the Scottish Institute of Human Relations in honour of the institute 's founder , the late Dr JD ( Jock ) Sutherland . |
| 28 | In a three-quarter view of the head the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen as in a profile view , and the double outline of the foremost shoulder gives the impression that the top of it has been tipped up into the picture plane . |