Example sentences of "were [verb] up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
2 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
3 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
4 | I made contact , and the arrangements were firmed up over the next week . |
5 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
6 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
7 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |