Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 2 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 3 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 4 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 6 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 7 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 8 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 9 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 10 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 11 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 12 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 13 | Soon another change came as wrights and blacksmiths began to work locally and this was speeded up by the coming of industry attracted by the water power of the Water of Leith . |
| 14 | This was backed up with a mountain of sweetcorn ( from the local cash and carry ) . |
| 15 | This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band . |
| 16 | This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 . |
| 17 | This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , . |
| 18 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 19 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 20 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
| 21 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |