Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as Terry Blamey said : ‘ Seventy per cent of everything written about Minogue has been made up . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 4 | Others like Chevron have been gobbled up , still others pushed to near-bankruptcy like Texaco . |
| 5 | In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing . |
| 6 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 7 | THE appointment of a key child care solicitor in Liverpool has been held up . |
| 8 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 9 | The national monopoly has disappeared and auctioning in France has been opened up to other Europeans , but auctioneers will remain officers appointed by the Minister of Justice . |
| 10 | A small international centre for educational evaluation at Ibadan has been set up ( and will be described further in my next chapter ) and another on child development is being planned in Nairobi . |
| 11 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |