Example sentences of "[was/were] put up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the happenings of the 400 years which have passed since the last of these buildings were being constructed , the quantity which exists in all European countries is testimony to the ability of the builders and the truly vast numbers of structures which were put up between 1150 and 1550 . |
| 2 | Following the death of William Lewis in 1843 , both Port and Brimscombe Mill were put up for sale . |
| 3 | In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time . |
| 4 | Earlier this year WEKA decided to close down its UK publishing operation and a number of titles , appealing to a broad spectrum of business and hobby readers , were put up for sale . |
| 5 | This week 14 paintings were put up for auction in London so the gallery could clear its debts and provide grants for artists , particularly students , in the region . |
| 6 | United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane . |
| 7 | And there 's gon na be many many many thousands of worried parents whose children were put up for adoption , whose children vanished , brothers and sisters who said , I thought I had a brother . |
| 8 | The privatization of industry in the Czech Lands began on Aug. 8 when 50 of the republic 's largest businesses were put up for sale on international markets . |
| 9 | In September 1957 the Gladstone Street buildings were put up for sale ; in 1958 the Temps moved out , and in 1959 the Hall was demolished and the Institute converted into shops . |
| 10 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 11 | Signs were put up at both ends . |
| 12 | Fencing and advisory signs were put up at seven Darlington play areas , which were also provided with dog faeces bins . |
| 13 | Entry fees to the Stock Exchange were put up by members of the Surrey committee in the late nineteenth century to help impecunious gentleman-cricketers . |
| 14 | Sandbags were put up against my office windows . |
| 15 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 16 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 17 | The statues at the roadside were put up in 1714 by a nobleman who , wishing to curry favour with the Habsburgs , chose two favourite Habsburg saints — St Joseph , by Francesco Santini and St John Nepomuk , by M. J. Brokof . |
| 18 | On long routes there were many overnight stops when passengers were put up in luxury hotels and enjoyed a night on the town . |
| 19 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 20 | Carol II was sympathetic to pseudo-fascist architecture and several of the most brutal pillar-and-concrete buildings in the capital were put up in his reign , though they were smoothly filled by the personnel of the new regime after 1944 . |
| 21 | In the following year , 100 nest boxes were put up in the wood , with the result that , in 1985 , no less than 60 pairs bred . |
| 22 | Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . |
| 23 | Two candidates were put up in each of three boroughs , Bethnal Green , Limehouse , and Shoreditch , for the LCC elections of March 1937 . |
| 24 | These decent working-class houses were put up in the 1770s and 1780s , where land was cheap and when building materials were plentiful , wages in the building trades relatively low , and money relatively cheap . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the aunts and cousins were put up in their usual caravans . |
| 26 | When the The Raddings prefabs were put up in nineteen forty-six they really were n't meant to last more than ten years . |
| 27 | Occasionally an innovative structure was put up without spires and gargoyles : Congregationalists in the Hertfordshire villages of Braughing and Puckeridge spent £1,275 not just in refitting the chapels and manse but in building an unsectarian village centre where the minister acted as warden . |
| 28 | The big second-hand machines and new boiler were stored in the vacated building and a two-storey building was put up with a canteen at the front and offices at the rear . |
| 29 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 30 | This was put up for vetting to a nominated superintendent whose instinctive response was to deny its submission , suggesting it ‘ looked as if it would be editorially unsuitable ’ . |