Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 2 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 3 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 4 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 5 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 6 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 7 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 8 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 9 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 10 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 11 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 12 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 13 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 14 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
| 15 | The rest were locked up in the car which was illegally parked below . |
| 16 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 17 | On any day there was a great advantage in arriving at the Board of Trade early , for people were called up in the order in which they handed in their cards . |
| 18 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 19 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 20 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 21 | Their findings were summed up in the feasibility study published in February 1986 , which predicted a minimum weekly sale of 800,000 and a maximum of 1.5 million . |
| 22 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 23 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 24 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 25 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 26 | It was pleasing to note that many recommendations made by our Agriculture Working Party were taken up in the scheme . |
| 27 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 28 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 29 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 30 | The performance took the audience from gasps of fear as dancers were thrown up in the air , to laughter as a roller skating bear entertained . |