Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] put up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two candidates were put up in each of three boroughs , Bethnal Green , Limehouse , and Shoreditch , for the LCC elections of March 1937 . |
| 2 | The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month . |
| 3 | Simpson is the second player to leave the Manor Ground since the club was put up for sale eleven weeks ago . |
| 4 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of AMI Healthcare was put up for auction this week after the company 's Los Angeles parent changed hands . |
| 6 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 7 | Sandbags were put up against my office windows . |
| 8 | Entry fees to the Stock Exchange were put up by members of the Surrey committee in the late nineteenth century to help impecunious gentleman-cricketers . |
| 9 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 10 | A barrier designed to stop vehicles gaining access to Orford Ness and damaging flood defences and wildlife habitat was put up by the National Rivers Authority last year and is controlled by the FCO . |
| 11 | The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids . |
| 12 | The company 's stay was fairly brief , for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction . |
| 13 | Following the death of William Lewis in 1843 , both Port and Brimscombe Mill were put up for sale . |
| 14 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 15 | In September 1957 the Gladstone Street buildings were put up for sale ; in 1958 the Temps moved out , and in 1959 the Hall was demolished and the Institute converted into shops . |
| 16 | The cash was put up by Motorola Inc , Schaumburg , Illinois and and 2M Invest , of Copenhagen , Denmark . |
| 17 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 18 | This week 14 paintings were put up for auction in London so the gallery could clear its debts and provide grants for artists , particularly students , in the region . |
| 19 | The privatization of industry in the Czech Lands began on Aug. 8 when 50 of the republic 's largest businesses were put up for sale on international markets . |
| 20 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 21 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 22 | A Christmas tree was put up in Moscow 's Red Square for the first time , and on Christmas Eve the bells of St Basil 's Cathedral in Red Square were rung for the first time since 1917 . |
| 23 | Best performance of the day was put up by Qannaas in winning the Ladies ' Open , by 12 lengths , from course specialist Phelioff . |
| 24 | Mr Heslop , of Stanhope Road , Darlington , said the original was put up in honour of Roland Bradford , Britain 's youngest-ever brigadier general . |
| 25 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 26 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 27 | A sign was put up in order to remind staff whenever I was on duty . |
| 28 | On long routes there were many overnight stops when passengers were put up in luxury hotels and enjoyed a night on the town . |
| 29 | When the The Raddings prefabs were put up in nineteen forty-six they really were n't meant to last more than ten years . |
| 30 | In the meantime , the aunts and cousins were put up in their usual caravans . |