Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 3 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 4 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 5 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 6 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 7 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |
| 8 | A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February . |
| 9 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
| 10 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 11 | Some of the farms have been split up into smallholdings . |
| 12 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 13 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 14 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 15 | What was not understood was that when you sweep away a feudal society , you do not overnight change the institutions or the casts of thought that have been built up over centuries . |
| 16 | Finely 's essay in fact deals very well with both the relatively few certain facts that are known about the event and the myths that have been built up around them . |
| 17 | George White of Irvine , California-based Corollary says ‘ the Symmetry 2000 machines are not PC-like enough to integrate NT simply , unlike the others which have been built up from PC architecture . ’ |
| 18 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |
| 19 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 20 | Hundreds of thousands of acres have been swallowed up by developers since ( 1985 ) nineteen eighty five . |
| 21 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 22 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 23 | Nearby , several rocks have been piled up as if intended to make a rudimentary windbreak or wall . |
| 24 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 25 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 26 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 27 | Few entrances have been warmed up like it . |
| 28 | In fact , such series have been building up around us gradually , until they have now become a major part of the market . |
| 29 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 30 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |