Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 2 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 3 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 4 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 5 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 6 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 7 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 8 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 9 | According to the trusty old BBC World Service our very own ‘ Gazza ’ Kelly has been called up into the RoI squad as a replacement for Kevin Moran . |
| 10 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 11 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 12 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 13 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 14 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 15 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 16 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 17 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 18 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 19 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 20 | You can see the cloud that brought today 's snow has been feeding up into the country from northern France and it will continue to do so for at least the next day or so . |
| 21 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 22 | After LIFESPAN has been started up on the host node for the first time , and after LIFESPAN startups following edits to the LIFESPAN configuration file , the following file must also be distributed to the remote Installation Directories : |
| 23 | Leslie , 32 , has been signed up as the latest leading lady in Dennis 's hit comedy Stay Lucky . |
| 24 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 25 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 26 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 27 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 28 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 29 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 30 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |