Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official .
2 Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made .
3 The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships .
4 Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation .
5 ‘ Remember , ’ I reminded him , ‘ that his foot has only been held up by the pressure of that piece of wood .
6 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 .
7 You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales .
8 As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation .
9 Gardeners with bad backs will be rushing to buy the Leaf-Lifter , a vacuum cleaner that sucks up autumn leaves directly into disposable bags — it has already been snapped up by a company wanting to market it .
10 has already been signed up for Crediton Rugby Club .
11 The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community .
12 The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community .
13 A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation .
14 A local consortium has already been set up between Darlington and South West Durham .
15 A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents .
16 Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’
17 So my profession , which has always been mixed up in politics , becomes an essential component of nationalism .
18 Criticism of alleged ‘ foreign interference ’ by Western embassies and news organisations in Burmese affairs has also been stepped up by the military .
19 His call has also been taken up over the past week by those with an interest in property , gleefully listing their own particular regional carbuncles ripe for demolition .
20 This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford .
21 It survives in some remaining large-scale engineering plants and in the pits and has also been taken up in public sector employment in the National Civil Service ( particularly at the Longbenton Head Office of the DHSS ) , the Health Service and Local Authorities .
22 The program has also been speeded up by increasing the re-draw performance by around 25% .
23 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 .
24 A quiz night has also been lined up in April at Mitchell 's Social Club , Tunstall , by the charity committee .
25 The text has also been brought up to date where the rules have changed in recent years — for example , in relation to independent taxation .
26 With the help of the team while they were in Africa , a Transport Manager ( employed by the Government of Zimbabwe ) was selected as part of this project and has now been followed up by the appointment of a transport adviser ( employed by SCF ) to provide ongoing advice and guidance in implementing the proposed arrangements .
27 The latter has now been swallowed up by extreme political shifts and disputes .
28 The wheel pit still exists although this has now been concreted up to the level of the existing floor .
29 So Yardie sold 10,000 copies in a few months — an unheard of amount for a small press publication — and has now been picked up by Pan Books which will be putting out a mass-market edition in the new year .
30 On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter .
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