Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 2 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 3 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 4 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 5 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 6 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 7 | The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery . |
| 8 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 9 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 10 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 11 | No p what Peter said was , if it has n't been picked up by the lab and it 's an internal problem , it can be dealt with internally . |
| 12 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 13 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
| 14 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 15 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 16 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 17 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 18 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 19 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 20 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 21 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 23 | A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you . |
| 24 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 25 | Canon law , however , gave grounds for supporting that an incompetent king , ‘ rex inutilis ’ , could be required to abdicate , and the articles against the king , which may have been drawn up by the Bishop of Winchester , allege that his ‘ uselessness ’ had brought damage and destruction to the Church , people and realm of England . |
| 26 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 27 | Further proposals for defence cuts had been drawn up by the armed forces in November 1989 on Cheney 's orders , in an effort to save some $180,000 million in the period to 1994 . |
| 28 | On March 1 King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally approved a new interim Constitution which had been drawn up by the NPKC . |
| 29 | The elections were to a 360-member House of Representatives as stipulated under the Constitution which had been drawn up by the military and promulgated in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 30 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |