Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 2 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 3 | He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him . |
| 4 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 5 | In the first experiment nasal mucus from the patient , with coryza , was shaken up with five times its volume of normal salt solution , and the mixture was centrifuged . |
| 6 | A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis . |
| 7 | The boy François , alias Abdel Saran , and a member of the FLM since the age of sixteen , was picked up within twenty-four hours . |
| 8 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 9 | At places it was sinking up to eighteen inches . |
| 10 | ‘ I was fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s . |
| 11 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 12 | The labour movement in Ireland was made up of two organizations . |
| 13 | Her head was made up of two snakeheads and her sagging breasts bore witness to her eternal fertility . |
| 14 | The game was made up of two penalties and a try … |
| 15 | The English could have no idea , Bryher maintained , that America had a climate that varied from that of Norway to that of a Spanish summer , that much of America was made up of monotonous stretches of unbroken country , and that there were parts where only Swedish is spoken and others where seventeenth-century English remained almost intact . |
| 16 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 17 | The 1st Bucks was made up of four companies , Wolverton covering the north of the county . |
| 18 | Even later on , in the medieval period , when the downlands were indeed grass-covered grazing areas , the generally wide ‘ zone ’ of communication was made up of countless trackways criss-crossing each other , quite unlike what survives today . |
| 19 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 20 | It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led , and was made up of experienced warriors , loyal princes and vassals , the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor . |
| 21 | The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats . |
| 22 | The beginning of this century produced phenomena which equally emphatically showed that light was made up of tiny particles . |
| 23 | It was made up of tiny dots . |
| 24 | The Regiment was made up of five squadrons , each comprising 200 men , and they spent their time in tanks and armoured cars . |
| 25 | The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 26 | The motel was made up of separate cabins wide-spaced and private among trees — but more to the point the cabin had its own phone extension and twin beds . |
| 27 | The total number in the institution was made up of 138 men , 125 women , and 17 children . |
| 28 | Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge . |
| 29 | In these schools ' sets the 0–17 score band contain 1.1 boys to each girl , but the higher score band ( 18–29 ) was made up of 2.4 boys to each girl . |
| 30 | The little column was made up of seven vehicles . |