Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 3 | Turkish helicopters and fighter planes were flown up to 5 km inside Iraq , and at least 24 alleged PKK bases were destroyed ; the government claimed on Aug. 16 that large quantities of arms , ammunition and documents had been seized during attacks at Kharkuk , in the Durji valley . |
| 4 | Grandmothers were looked up to and respected then . |
| 5 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 6 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 7 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 8 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 9 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 10 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 11 | Most were connected up to fluid intake tubes . |
| 12 | Standards ( 0.1 ml aliquots of the labelled cells ) were made up to 50 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in an identical container . |
| 13 | Standards ( 2% of the injected dose ) were made up to 200 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in a plastic container . |
| 14 | Supernatants were made up to 35% saturation with ammonium sulphate and the precipitated protein pellets dissolved in 0.2% original culture volume of resuspension buffer . |
| 15 | Is that right that you were a security guard before you were made up to reception manager . |
| 16 | About 50000 tonnes were produced up to 1945 . |
| 17 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 18 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 19 | But behind her she could hear , all over the bay , the scraps of men 's voices shouting , and the rumble of rollers as the ships were drawn up to safety , and the lowing and bleating of animals being driven uphill . |
| 20 | They were shown up to a double room , and Paul stood slackly , wetting his lips . |
| 21 | I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Napoleon 's victories over the Prussians meant that the German states were opened up to foreign and revolutionary influences . |
| 23 | The 300 surviving Uru Eu Wau Wau Indians , whose lands were opened up to outside exploitation by the road project , are said to be suffering from diseases brought in by illegal miners . |
| 24 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 25 | In some months there were employed up to 40 such persons but usually fewer . |
| 26 | We were brought up to date — or as up to date as it was possible to be . |
| 27 | This set the new tone of the UK 's argument : everything possible was being done and therefore any breaches of European law should be disregarded while ‘ things were brought up to scratch ’ . |
| 28 | During the Empire these conservative traditions were brought up to date by the adoption of hairstyles fashionable at court ; some individuals even imitated the physical characteristics of the imperial family . |
| 29 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 30 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |