Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " 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 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 4 | The remaining er , eleven erm , on the delegation were made up of General Secretary , Deputy General Secretary , elected national officers and a few senior staff . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | in the ‘ balanced aquarium ’ system , the nitrogen compounds produced by the fish 's metabolism were taken up by plants , and nitrate levels in the water would be kept low . |
| 8 | On a similar subject , THAT PETROL EMOTION were held up in Derry ( the place , not the EMF sex-god ) last week . |
| 9 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 10 | Palestinians in the territories were placed under curfew and as many as 1,300 alleged Hamas sympathizers were rounded up for questioning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 13 | In the city 's markets Uzbek traders were beaten up by Kirghiz students . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 16 | The 21,906 children who entered the Survival Study were followed up for 33,287 child-years ( 16,508 vitamin A group , 16,779 placebo group ) . |
| 17 | The time was past ten , kids were wrapped up in their beds , and parents were probably about to retire themselves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The waves were whipped up like ice-cream and frothing like champagne and there was no one else out . |
| 20 | The sunniest pictures were pinned up on a board at the end of the ward . |
| 21 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 22 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 23 | Grand prix motor cars were painted up like buses to advertise cigarettes and even contraceptives . |
| 24 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 25 | A number of London United cars were broken up including at least one still in blue livery . |
| 26 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 27 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 28 | Beyond the garden was a fairly busy road , but all the passing drivers were wrapped up in their tin cans , insulated by Christmas drinks and trivial pursuits . |
| 29 | Two candidates were put up in each of three boroughs , Bethnal Green , Limehouse , and Shoreditch , for the LCC elections of March 1937 . |
| 30 | All subjects were followed up in 1982 . |