Example sentences of "[was/were] put up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 2 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 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 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 5 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 6 | A barrier designed to stop vehicles gaining access to Orford Ness and damaging flood defences and wildlife habitat was put up by the National Rivers Authority last year and is controlled by the FCO . |