Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 2 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 3 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 4 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 5 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 6 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 7 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 8 | The groups of children were soon swallowed up among the trees , and the sounds of the forest overlaid their fading voices and laughter , the soughing of the wind in the canopy of branches above their heads , the calls of the birds and the rustling and murmuring in the undergrowth . |
| 9 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 10 | He was hungry and conscious of the delicious greasy bundle in his bag , but he believed fish and chips were usually heated up in the oven anyway , so they would n't spoil . |
| 11 | Their weapons were promptly snatched up by the Secte Rouge , who added their own shooting to the confusion . |
| 12 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 13 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 14 | Associated with them was the potentially much more radical assumption that the foreign relations of States were indissolubly bound up with the structure of their internal politics . |
| 15 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 16 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 17 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 18 | As an instance , carriage doors which were formerly framed up in the body shop and then transferred to the finishing shop for the fixing of the interior lining , afterwards being sent to the polishing shop to be french polished and finally returned to the body shop for fixing in position , were now dealt with by an altogether different method . |
| 19 | He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them . |
| 20 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
| 21 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
| 22 | Other pro-democracy activists were also rounded up during the following months . |
| 23 | This affluence was made possible not only by higher wages ( in real terms ) but because new mass markets in non-essential goods were also opened up for the population at large . |
| 24 | Stones were also set up along the Great North Road in 1708 , but the first true milestone to be set up in Britain since Roman times was that at Trumpington , just outside Cambridge , in 1727 , where it is still to be seen . |
| 25 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 26 | The bronzes were later set up in the Porticus Metelli , the first secular building in Rome specifically intended for the display of booty . |
| 27 | His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa 's then deputy charge nurse , Karen Spinner . |
| 28 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 29 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 30 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |