Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up on [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones .
3 Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis .
4 In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts .
5 The following protocol for neonatal pain relief has been drawn up on the basis of a review of published literature , experience , and discussion with senior medical and nursing staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and other neonatal units .
6 The Law Society has issued guidance notes for equal opportunities in solicitors ' firms which reproduce a standard policy for their use which has been drawn up on the basis of recommendations of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality .
7 THE mutilated bodies of two British women tourists have been washed up on a deserted South African beach .
8 Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent
9 She finds a fisherman who has been washed up on the shore .
10 You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love …
11 It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate .
12 Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month .
13 And it has n't been pulled up on the airline ?
14 There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also .
15 This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York .
16 Even afterwards at Four Winds , where a marquee had been set up on the lawn , and the guests mingled , Merrill still saw the affair as a disjointed series of impressions .
17 turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends .
18 As you know , something 's wrong with the computerized route-finder on the Glory ; one 's already been found up on the hill .
19 A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent .
20 Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft .
21 Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience .
22 He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader .
23 But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm .
24 Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary .
25 His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ .
26 He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale .
27 Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite .
28 The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath .
29 I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’
30 His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw .
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