Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 2 | At successively' shorter wavelengths , IRAS sees clouds that have broken up into smaller and warmer cloudlets — as theory predicts — and the sources shining at 10 micrometres have probably completed the process and have just become stars , shining by their interior nuclear reactions . |
| 3 | Some of the largest US banks , e.g. Bank of America or Citibank , have earned up to 50 per cent of their annual profits from international operations ; thus a US banking presence overseas is likely to be maintained or increased in future years . |
| 4 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
| 5 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 6 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 7 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 8 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 9 | Full details from Editor : We 'd very much like to hear from others who have come up with profitable solutions to this seasonal problem . |
| 10 | As it is , they have two and have come up with various suggestions as to what selectors do their thinking with . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the philologists , putting together the various clues inside the Kalevala — it is bright , it was forged , it is a kind of mill , it brings luck , it made the sea salt — have come up with innumerable solutions , at once vague and pedantic : the sampo was the Golden Fleece , some fertility-cult object , a Lappish pillar-idol , an allegory of the sky . |
| 12 | Jill and Yvonne have come up with dozens of designs for jumpers , blazers , trousers and skirts . |
| 13 | To celebrate the November Presidential election two galleries have come up with national election year shows . |
| 14 | Point 7 Design have come up with this superb ceramic jigsaw puzzle that will not only entertain , but as a ‘ gift of worth ’ doubtless become an heirloom in many families . |
| 15 | I know that Jacqueline , you may well get it right , but you have come up with hard work sometime do n't you ? |
| 16 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 17 | A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
| 18 | ELITE , creators of those lovable cavemen Joe and Mac , have come up with another cartoon romp in the form of Dragon 's Lair on the SNES . |
| 19 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 20 | It 's nice to have but it remains a novelty : only IBM and Epson have picked up on this new format with any degree of enthusiasm . |
| 21 | The first author shows quite clearly that the idea of inference or mental perception is connected to an impression of " afterness " or subsequence , as are all the other uses with to which we have seen up to this point . |
| 22 | Years of under-investment in the physical and human infrastructure have built up into serious supply-side problems affecting the performance of both private and public sector organisations . |
| 23 | The other side of the coin is that some of the manufacturing jobs lost in high wage countries have turned up in low wage countries . |
| 24 | For instance , fossils deposited in Asia have turned up in Canadian rock . |
| 25 | In 1653 they were fined for ‘ … not impounding the hogs which have turned up in divers places ’ . |
| 26 | Now football , and Swindon Town have moved up into sixth place in the first division after beating Grimsby Town one-nil at the County Ground last night . |
| 27 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 28 | These young people who have grown up under Israeli occupation take a much more radical approach than the PLO leadership . |
| 29 | I am interested in readers ' experiences of this phenomenon , their encounters with the players and the stories that have grown up around some of the longer serving recruits . |
| 30 | Some , like Pesaro and Senigallia , have grown up around medieval towns and still retain old-world charm . |