Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 2 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |
| 3 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 4 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 5 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 6 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 7 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 8 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 9 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 10 | After further discussion a small group consisting initially of Eileen , Maureen , Crawford and Leah , was set up to plan the next such gathering . |
| 11 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
| 12 | Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) . |
| 13 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
| 14 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 15 | This culminated in a call for the CUC to become a high-profile campaigning body and in 1985 a working party was set up to consider the future role and shape of the CUC . |
| 16 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |
| 17 | A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort . |
| 18 | It depends on whether the duty solicitor scheme was set up to help the unrepresented defendant or to diversify criminal work . |
| 19 | The Wilson Committee was set up to investigate the whole question of the provision of funds for industry and trade . |