Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 2 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 6 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 9 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 10 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 13 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Also , there are three sites that have been put up for public consultation by the Gipsy Working Party and that 's Rockhill Farm at Chipping Norton , the airfield at Chiltern near Burford , and Standlake . |
| 18 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |