Example sentences of "[was/were] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 2 | Shares in the Sheffield Development Corporation were up for sale . |
| 3 | In the latter part of Sir Kit 's reign , which ended in early 1991 , half the bank 's assets were up for sale , including its European businesses , Thomas Cook , the travel chain , Forward Trust , and even the Midland 's headquarters in Poultry . |
| 4 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 5 | Utah and Nevada were up for grabs since the Turner-Harvest-Ramirez and US Cav joint action put the Western Maniax out of business , and Jazzbeaux thought the ‘ pomps could gain something from a quick fight rather than a long war . |
| 6 | But they could n't do that because only one third of the councillors were up for election . |
| 7 | Just before Christmas , when they were up for interview from their respective schools . |
| 8 | The first of Jonathon 's wooden ships were up for sale at ten guineas each ; Jonathon was earning his keep and so was Melanie , in the shop on her feet all day . |
| 9 | The PRD now held only 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies ; of its former four Senate seats , it lost both those which were up for election . |
| 10 | In the Legislative Council ( the upper house of the state legislature ) one half of the 22 seats were up for election . |
| 11 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 12 | Many of the national titles were up for grabs … it does n't pay to be faint-hearted in this game . |
| 13 | Rovers applied for a Pontins League place along with Stockport County , while Preston and Wigan were up for reelection . |
| 14 | No surprises were anticipated from the meeting , at which all directors were up for re-election . |
| 15 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 16 | There was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up and this was reflected by the fact that so many local hotels were up for sale . |
| 17 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
| 18 | The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem . |
| 19 | I was tempted to curtsey in return but I was n't sure if my knees were up to it . |
| 20 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 21 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 22 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 23 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 24 | As there were up to sixteen different taxes , the more ignorant , who were usually also the poorest , were compelled to run to their more fortunate fellows for advice on how to calculate , time , and pay ( or avoid paying ) these complex dues . |
| 25 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 27 | That is just what both BSN and LVMH were up to . |
| 28 | None of them were up to him in looks . |
| 29 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 30 | ‘ I knew they were up to something , ’ added Mr Fractor . |