Example sentences of "been [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production .
2 Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment .
3 Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese .
4 The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market .
5 These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting .
6 This new board has been set up with equal representation from CGLI and BTEC to validate and examine courses for the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) .
7 The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman .
8 Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims .
9 The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation .
10 Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September .
11 And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china .
12 By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard .
13 One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 As we shall see , both options have been taken up in subsequent thinking .
17 She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines .
18 Birmingham-based ACT Group Plc 's ACT Computer Support Ltd and Professional Support Centre , an organisation providing personal computer-based software support , have been signed up by personal computer manufacturer Tandy Grid Systems Corp to offer computer support services to its customers : ACT will deal with on-site technical support , consulting , training and additional installations , while Professional will look after a hot-line and the initial diagnostic process .
19 In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action .
20 Such a view would be wrong because many of the points of critique that we have just set down have been backed up by solid research into the concrete world of interests and groups .
21 In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations .
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