Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 2 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 3 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 4 | But nationalist styles were springing up everywhere . |
| 5 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 6 | One year after Brooklands opened , A V Roe , one of Britain 's aviation pioneers arrived on site , other aviators followed , flying schools were set up and Brooklands soon became known for the ‘ art of aviating ’ . |
| 7 | The Board schools were set up , governed by local worthies , creating a dual system . |
| 8 | E/1 cars these Croydon cars had folding platform steps , on the backs of which were side lifeguards , which came into position when the steps were folded up . |
| 9 | She got into the coach , the steps were folded up , and in a moment the horses were trotting around the house towards the main drive . |
| 10 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 11 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 12 | Records of membership , subscriptions and payments had to be kept , and at times of dispute , petitions and other statements of grievances were drawn up and presented from at least the beginning of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 13 | Palestinians in the territories were placed under curfew and as many as 1,300 alleged Hamas sympathizers were rounded up for questioning . |
| 14 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 15 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 16 | Old-generation units were patched up even further beyond their expected life span . |
| 17 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 18 | As these units were set up , they would replace the functions of the large hospitals , which would be required only for the care of the old long-stay patients , a cohort admitted before the outdoor mode of treatment was to become common and schizophrenia was thought uncontrollable in the community . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you be taken in , I 'm not to be trusted , ’ he said , noticing that his spectacles were steamed up . |
| 20 | In the city 's markets Uzbek traders were beaten up by Kirghiz students . |
| 21 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 22 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 23 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 24 | Three new ministries were set up instead : Industry , headed by Rumen Bikov , a UDF Assembly member and a metallurgical engineer ; Trade , headed by another UDF Assembly member Aleksandur Pramatarski ; and Agricultural Development , Land Use and Land Restitution headed by Georgi Stoyanov . |
| 25 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 26 | His kids were grown up and racing . |
| 27 | ‘ Loads of kids were coming up to us and complaining that their dads were getting on their backs about their garages being full of paper . |
| 28 | The time was past ten , kids were wrapped up in their beds , and parents were probably about to retire themselves . |
| 29 | When us kids were growing up now so Well there was myself and my oth younger sister ne the one next to me . |
| 30 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |