Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour .
2 They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter .
3 Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past .
4 The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone .
5 With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 .
6 PREMIER John Major and his bungling sidekick Norman Lamont were shown up for the joke double act they are yesterday .
7 At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried .
8 All patients were followed up for a minimum of two years through the inflammatory bowel diseases clinic .
9 Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively .
10 In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) .
11 The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths .
12 Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms .
13 Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) .
14 Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments .
15 In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time .
16 Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents .
17 When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room .
18 Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity .
19 Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites .
20 It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help .
21 I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason .
22 At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there .
23 Thus the property was tied up for a generation .
24 ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims :
25 A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service .
26 We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee .
27 A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer .
28 A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money .
29 The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn .
30 The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust
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