Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 2 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 3 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 4 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 5 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
| 7 | Much of the boost to profits came from pharmaceutical retailing , which has been built up almost from scratch since the E Moss chain of chemists was bought in 1991 . |
| 8 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 9 | Now firmly perched at the top of the Hollywood ‘ A-list ’ of actresses , it seems strange that her career has been made up entirely of films that really have n't been all that good . |
| 10 | Seven houses which were bought and then left derelict for years by Robert Maxwell , have been opened up again to potential buyers . |
| 11 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 12 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 13 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 14 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 15 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 16 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 17 | A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state . |
| 18 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 19 | And all in the course of a social event that had been set up not by her but by Andrew . |
| 20 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 21 | The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes . |
| 22 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 23 | During the year , the new Revolutionary Government of the Whitsun Islands confiscated the property of the local branch that had been set up there by A. Layout Pty . |
| 24 | Various marketing opportunities have been set up recently by ACE including Christmas Cards and a holiday scheme . |
| 25 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 26 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 27 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 28 | He 's never oversexed or silly , but then he 's been brought up not to be . |
| 29 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 30 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |