Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 2 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 3 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 4 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 5 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 6 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 7 | In the case of Olugboja ( 1981 ) two girls were picked up by two men and taken to a remote house . |
| 8 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 9 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 10 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 11 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 12 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 13 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 14 | The symmetrical terraces were built up with brick-effect facings , designed for fireplaces . |
| 15 | The panels were built up from small components , enabling work to be subcontracted to a large number of small engineering firms without disrupting heavy engineering production . |
| 16 | The 48 films were made up of four films showing motorway driving , eight showing bends in a road and four exemplars each of left turns , right turns and driving straight ahead in each of three situations : signalized crossroads , four arm roundabouts , and unsignalized T-junctions . |
| 17 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 18 | But both of these key groups , in Stockman 's view , were made up of unreliable allies . |
| 19 | The curved members were made up from 2 pieces of 5x2 in. sawn roughly to shape and joined by double mortice and tenon , as was used at the top to join the curved members and the centre glazing bar . |
| 20 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 21 | The barrels were washed up on Turkish beaches later the same year . |
| 22 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 23 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 24 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 25 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 26 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 27 | I mean if you , in the agricultural depression of the nineteen thirties , that 's a depression that lasted erm , the best part of a decade , you know , but farmers did n't go out of production you know , for about five , six , seven years down the line , because virtually all of their assets were tied up in fixed assets . |
| 28 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |
| 29 | One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions . |
| 30 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |