Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 2 | The German-American Academic Council was set up this month on the initiative of Germany to support projects and exchanges in science , including social science , and technology . |
| 3 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 4 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 5 | When the shopping centre was locked up that night , Ray Coary the manager praised my work , and tried to press an envelope on me . |
| 6 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 7 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 8 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 9 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |