Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 2 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 3 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 4 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 5 | There was also a particular association of such patronage with Carolus Magnus — " senior Charles " who from young Charles 's earliest years was held up as a role-model for him . |
| 6 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 7 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 8 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 9 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 10 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 11 | If only the English attempt to legislate against slow over rates was backed up with a different small-print . |
| 12 | Even the inheritance of acquired characters was taken up as the centrepiece for a self-consciously anti-Darwinian movement known as ‘ neo-Lamarckism ’ . |
| 13 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 14 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 15 | The top prices , however , were paid for two seven-month-old daughters of Rothrock Tradition Leadman , from Canadian consignors Cormdale Farms in Ontario — Allstar Leadman Marcie , out of A Valianat Mars SWD Marcie , with a projected CGI of 1071 points was snapped up by a German buyer for 7500gns , and Genesis Leadman Dora , out of Nowerland Chief Doris , with a projected CGI of 1131 points , was sold to Eire . |
| 16 | The Research programme on Environmental Issues was set up by the ESRC Environment and Planning Committee with the aim of increasing the intellectual and practical contributions of the social sciences to the understanding and amelioration of environmental problems . |
| 17 | .. of warriors was swallowed up by the earth , and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished . ’ |
| 18 | In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’ |
| 19 | This coupling of social insurance with a safety net of means-tested benefits was taken up in the Beveridge Plan which settled the framework of the welfare state after the Second World War ( Beveridge , 1942 ) . |
| 20 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 21 | One of Fletcher 's rotary engines was sent up to the Empress Works for repair . |
| 22 | A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab . |
| 23 | One of these glove-like objects was washed up on the bank . |
| 24 | The jangling of his chains and bells was swallowed up by the blackness . |
| 25 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |