Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The higher risk prisoners are locked up for longer . |
| 2 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 3 | The 21,906 children who entered the Survival Study were followed up for 33,287 child-years ( 16,508 vitamin A group , 16,779 placebo group ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 5 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 6 | My rent is paid up for six months . |
| 7 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 8 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 9 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 10 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 11 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 12 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 13 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 14 | Patients were followed up for six months with ultrasound and assessment of symptoms . |
| 15 | In the remaining 21 patients H pylori was not eradicated ( group 2 ) and these patients were followed up for 12–54 months ( median 24 months ) . |
| 16 | Matty and Chris 's return flight is held up for seven hours . |
| 17 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 18 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 19 | Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes . |
| 20 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 21 | And Labour has friends in the advertising industry who will try to spot advertising space being bought up for fake corporate campaigns by pro-Tory companies for May or June . |
| 22 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |
| 23 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 24 | The 100 children were followed up for 4.9 ( 1.8 ) years ( minimum two years ) to a mean age of 16.1 ( 2.2 ) years . |
| 25 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 26 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 27 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 28 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |
| 29 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |