Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 6 | Rose too was caught up in the preparations . |
| 7 | And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I |
| 8 | The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser . |
| 9 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 10 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 11 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 12 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 13 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 14 | During the war Well while the war as going on nationalization was brought up in the buffets by what we would term now , the activist or militant Labour people . |
| 15 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 16 | The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life . |