Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 2 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 3 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 4 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 5 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 6 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 7 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 8 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 9 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 10 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 11 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 12 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 13 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 15 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 17 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 18 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 19 | Although the song has been cleaned up for the video ( sucker is the substituted word ) , and some sentences are left out completely , the track is funky enough to hold up instrumentally . |
| 20 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
| 21 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 22 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 23 | ‘ No detailed programme has yet been drawn up for the production of the District Wide Plan . |
| 24 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |
| 25 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 26 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 27 | PLANS have been drawn up for an education resource centre at the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park near Holywell . |
| 28 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 29 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 30 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |