Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mental Health Review Tribunals were set up under the 1959 Act . |
| 2 | The patients were followed up over the one week period of the challenge and , for longterm tolerance ; they were seen one month later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 5 | The programme for the first year was drawn up by the three partners during a week-long visit to Fife . |
| 6 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 7 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 8 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 9 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 10 | Darlington Wildlife Trust is the latest branch of the Durham trust , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 11 | Ms Ela Robinson , who is in charge of the nursery class at Richmond CE School , is chairman of the National Campaign for Nursery Education , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 12 | The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them . |
| 13 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 14 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 15 | Thanks primarily to Francois Mitterrand , a regulatory body , independent of the state , was set up in the 1980S to overview public service and other communications sectors and to protect broadcasters from pressures exercised by governments , politicians and lobbies of all kinds . |
| 16 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 17 | The brake-pad bindweed had returned and everything was seized up in the early-seventies . |
| 18 | Evelyn was dressed up to the nines . |
| 19 | The trial was analysed up to the 31 January 1991 and a minimum of 16 months after the last patient was recruited into the study . |
| 20 | By the partitions of 1772 , 1793 , and 1795 , therefore , Poland was carved up between the three powers and erased from the map . |
| 21 | By the beginning of the nineteenth century Siberia was divided up into the three governorships ( gubemii ) of Tobolsk , Tomsk and Irkutsk , each of them further subdivided , like any other guberniya in the empire , into a number of regions ( oblasti ) and districts ( uezdy ) . |