Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 2 | The collection had been expected to fetch up to eighty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |
| 5 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | COUSTEAU : Fully grown , it has been known to reach up to forty feet in size . |
| 8 | As household refuse decomposes , it produces an explosive gas , methane , which has been known to seep up through sewage pipes , telephone cables or the top soil covering a site , constituting a serious hazard to nearby buildings . |
| 9 | Before the 1987 General Election he had a stand-up row over defence policy with Lord Callaghan , the former Labour Prime Minister , in the House of Commons tea-room , and he has been known to square up to Tories who have enraged him . |
| 10 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 11 | At a time when even Tufty wears trainers and a shell suit , road safety has been brought bang up to date . |
| 12 | Comprising of a completely new type of lotion and pinless , lightweight rollers , this unique technique has been introduced to keep up with the increasing demand for 90 's sets . |
| 13 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 14 | Freud compares taboos with the obsessional prohibitions that some neurotics had been observed to set up for themselves , and sometimes for those around them , such as the frequent need to wash their own hands before performing a task . |
| 15 | The 12 chatline companies have been asked to come up with £660,000 , but only two have produced their share . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ever since Dad 's death , she 'd been reading letters from her mother singing Romano 's praises , and detailing the dangerous sports she 'd been encouraged to take up by the wretched man … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Until now , summarised results data on the National Certificate was not available until well after the end of session to which it related — because of the backlog of outstanding results which had been allowed to build up in some centres . |
| 21 | Health authority assistant chief executive Alison Farquharson confirmed that children had been forced to wait up to 50 weeks . |
| 22 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 23 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 24 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 25 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 26 | The others had been ordered to split up into small groups and make good their escape as best they could and , if successful , to report to pre-arranged meeting places in the city . |
| 27 | Count 4 charged the offence of a bankrupt removing property contrary to section 354(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , and alleged that on or about 23 March 1988 the appellant removed property , namely his interest in funds held jointly by himself and his wife amounting to £104,356.55 , possession of which he would have been required to deliver up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 28 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 29 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 30 | Well this conference has been assembled to bring up to date our information concerning the position of human genes in the human chromosomes . |