Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 2 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 3 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 4 | I made contact , and the arrangements were firmed up over the next week . |
| 5 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 6 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 7 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 8 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 9 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 10 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 11 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 12 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 13 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 14 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 15 | The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic . |
| 16 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 17 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 18 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 19 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 20 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 21 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 22 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 23 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 24 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 25 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 26 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 27 | The even-money favourite was never moving in his best style and was pulled up before the 15th fence . |
| 28 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 29 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 30 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |