Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | The earliest written version of Lex Salica seems to have been made up of sixty-five titles . |
| 4 | A prosecution was brought , and one night in April , shortly after an indictment had been drawn up against two police officers , a police superintendent accompanied by the two accused police officers , visited the family business , a café , looking for Servet Sayan . |
| 5 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 6 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 7 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 8 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 9 | On our review model the tremolo has been set up with three springs instead of Stevie 's five , and the baseplate is kicked up way too high from the face of the body . |
| 10 | He said that special bodies had been set up in 20 enterprises and organizations to deal with " irregularities " and " speculation " in the supply of these goods . |
| 11 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 12 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 13 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 14 | In the example given , the production function has been divided up into four sub-units or departments . |
| 15 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |