Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 3 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 5 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 6 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 7 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 8 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 9 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 12 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 13 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 14 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 15 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |
| 16 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 17 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 19 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 20 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 21 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 22 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 23 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 25 | If you boo has that been booted up with that in ? |
| 26 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 27 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 28 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 29 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 30 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |