Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 2 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 3 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 4 | There they were picked up by a white ship crewed by the remnants of the Queen 's Guard . |
| 5 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 6 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 7 | Elderly people were caught up in a political , financial and staffing web in which services were run according to the needs of service providers , Harbert told the conference . |
| 8 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 9 | Even Emil Fischer , in propounding the idea that proteins were built up by a standard linkage ( -CO-NH- ) between different amino acids , apparently did not envisage molecules containing more than 30 or so such units , corresponding to no more than 300 atoms which is much too small . |
| 10 | A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing , with the greatest of ease . |
| 11 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 12 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 13 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 14 | They were shown up to a double room , and Paul stood slackly , wetting his lips . |
| 15 | We squeeze back out the pub door onto the cold pavement , and stand reeling , like we were belched up by a drunken giant . |
| 16 | The show continued until Christmas by which time Mr Smith and Doris realized they were facing up to a new way of life that would challenge them even more than the lean and difficult times of the thirties . |
| 17 | ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky . |
| 18 | It was still dark the following morning when we were woken up by a screaming Corporal who came in , kicking the lockers and pushing us out of bed . |
| 19 | As young children , Peter and his sister Norah , were brought up with a strong emphasis on Ukrainian culture . |
| 20 | By scrawling with his crook in the dust , the shepherd redirected us and by nightfall we were holed up in a cosy bar . |
| 21 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 22 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 23 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 24 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 25 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 26 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 27 | Mechanisms of political control were backed up by a harsh system of regulation , which attempted to minimize all social , political and economic change among the population at large . |
| 28 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 29 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 30 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |