Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 6 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 7 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Patients were followed up for six months with ultrasound and assessment of symptoms . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 13 | Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes . |
| 14 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |
| 15 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 18 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 19 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 20 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 21 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |