Example sentences of "have been [verb] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 2 | Sixty firemen and hundreds of council and contract cleaning crews have been trying to tidy up — the final cost will easily run into six figures |
| 3 | Its quite possible this was taken out of context by teletext — they often do — especially in this case where the press have been trying to stir up a rift for well over a year . |
| 4 | How many people have been invited to stand up and be counted long after this phrase was first used ? |
| 5 | EXCITING theme days have been arranged to spice up eating in the Barlaston canteen . |
| 6 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | The 12 chatline companies have been asked to come up with £660,000 , but only two have produced their share . |
| 8 | Volunteers have been asked to come up with ideas as to how the club should be run and what the objectives of it should be . |
| 9 | The two players whose numbers have been called pick up the hockey sticks , and the first one to hit the ball gets the point . |
| 10 | Only this weekend , industrial users in the electricity industry have been looking to break up power generators and introduce competition , and there is a suggestion that the Director General of Electricity Supply might yet refer the electricity industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the issue of industrial prices , as happened with British Gas . |
| 11 | ‘ Chances have been missed to build up indigenous industry . |
| 12 | Establish whether the patient smokes cigarettes or a pipe , the amount of tobacco taken daily and whether attempts have been made to give up or reduce consumption in previous attempts have been unsuccessful , offer advice and encouragement to help the patient stop smoking during the pre-operative period . |
| 13 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 14 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 15 | Of 100 patients who underwent successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , two have died unrelated to the procedure and six have been lost to follow up having left the country . |
| 16 | All patients attend a regular follow up clinic , none have been lost to follow up but seven patients are contacted through local gastroenterologists either because they find travel to the centre difficult or because they now live abroad . |
| 17 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 18 | There are also provisions to compensate companies if the firm they have been contracted to clean up goes out of business . |
| 19 | ’ Dancing rooms have been compelled to shut up shop , public houses have been emptied , desperate characters reclaimed and a corps of 100 brave salvationists has been formed . ’ |
| 20 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 21 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We have taken police advice on security and steps have been taken to tighten up our procedures . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ We have taken police advice on security and steps have been taken to tighten up our procedures . |
| 24 | A further feature of this pattern can be distinguished at Braintree , where the plots have been shown to extend up to 105 m ( 343 ft ) away from the frontages and appear therefore to represent smallholdings associated with the various buildings comparable dimensions have also been noted at Great Dunmow . |
| 25 | TAKING as their jumping off point Steve Geliot 's previous installation/exhibition devoted to the theme of the ocean and the sea , a number of first-year students on the BA Interior Design course at Teesside Polytechnic have been encouraged to come up with the son or is it daughter ? of Seascape . |
| 26 | Supplies of the currency have been restricted to keep up its value , and people in remoter parts of the country have been unable to get enough . |
| 27 | Simple commands have been used to set up a recording system , add data to it , change its structure and produce reports . |
| 28 | In the United States the Anti-Trust laws have been used to break up existing private monopolies and prevent the formation of new monopolies through mergers of existing companies . |
| 29 | Other pieces of legislation such as the Vagrancy Act 1898 and the Licensing Act 1964 have been used to tighten up what could be seen as loop-holes in the law . |
| 30 | However , they are organizing women refugees in the Central American countries where they have been allowed to set up representations and in Mexico and the US . |