Example sentences of "were [verb] up in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |
| 2 | The US Secretary of State James Baker met subsequently with Shevardnadze and welcomed the proposed cuts at a joint press conference , although he had earlier expressed doubts as to whether the cuts were in fact new or were made up in part by other previously announced withdrawals . |
| 3 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 4 | The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms . |
| 5 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 6 | Army reservists were called up in Belgrade on May 7 and soldiers were placed on May 8-9 on guard at three Danube bridges ( hitherto controlled by Croatian police ) amid fears that the tensions would spread to Bosnia-Hercegovinia , where the residents of villages near Listica were blocking the passage of a military convoy into Croatia . |
| 7 | By the time he was nine both parents had died , and Trevor and his sister were brought up in Wisbech by their maternal grandparents . |
| 8 | On a constitutional point , does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health , trade and industry , and taxation north of the border — |
| 9 | Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement . |
| 10 | Three " Serbian Autonomous Regions " were set up in Bosnia in mid-September . |
| 11 | Guzman , 57 , boss of Peru 's Maoist Shining Path gang , and 13 henchmen were rounded up in raids by police in Lima . |
| 12 | Lockyer 's ideas were taken up in Germany by researchers such as Albrecht and Leugering , the latter of whom , in the 1920s , found alignments in his native Westphalia . |
| 13 | Many of the players were playing up in front of the water but Sam was through the green with a 2-iron . |
| 14 | On 17 October 1952 tanks were lined up in front of the presidential palace and a group of officers led by Nasution called on Sukarno to dissolve parliament . |
| 15 | Four younger men were lined up in front of him and he was addressing them . |
| 16 | Huge four-wheeled carts , each pulled by six horses , were lined up in front of the main doors as Fat Henry moved his furniture and belongings elsewhere for another round of pleasure . |