Example sentences of "was [verb] up [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 2 | Approximately 50 years ago , the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad was set up to deal with the then growing incidence of company fraud . |
| 3 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |
| 4 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 5 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |