Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 5 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 7 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 8 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 9 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 10 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 11 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 12 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 13 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 14 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
| 15 | That state sector has been made up of nationalized industries , and of extensive welfare services provided on the basis of need , and not on the basis of the ability to pay . |
| 16 | The earliest written version of Lex Salica seems to have been made up of sixty-five titles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This means that , for the first time , the whole SVQ framework has been opened up to slower learners and those without formal qualifications . |
| 19 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 20 | The truth is that Libya has been stiched up on several occasions since Libyan oil was nationalised in 1969 and Gaddafi refused to behave like the American client his predecessors used to be . |
| 21 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 22 | The measure , which had been drawn up by congressional leaders and administration officials and approved by the House of Representatives on Nov. 1 by 382 votes to 37 , represented an alternative to the minimum wage bill passed by Congress in May and vetoed by President Bush . |
| 23 | Already a list has been drawn up by Italian clubs who intend to buy British following Gazza 's incredible impact . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a suggestion that the Act has been dreamed up by left-wing lunatics , when in fact it was devised by a Conservative government after wide consultation , ’ NACRO 's director Vivien Stern told a conference on young adult offenders last month . |
| 26 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 27 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |