Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 2 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 3 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 4 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 5 | Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment . |
| 6 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 7 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 8 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 9 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 10 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 11 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 12 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 13 | The gangs were called up during the war . |
| 14 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 15 | Unbelievably , our boats were still being laid up during the winter months but with a more professional approach being adopted from topside , this policy was soon to be abandoned . |
| 16 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 17 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 18 | Therefore , the arbitrage of underpricings ( which requires short selling shares ) is opened up during the stock exchange account which includes the delivery date to traders who can not usually short sell . |
| 19 | " how terribly the work of the Sixth Form is cut up during the year by the three mornings and one afternoon per week that our boys spend in attending Dr. Roscoe 's Chymistry , [ sic ] classes in Manchester . " |
| 20 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 21 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 23 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 24 | When a joint committee of CST and CASS was set up during the debates , it was chaired by Sir Alan Richmond , who described it as ‘ the most difficult committee I have ever chaired in my life ’ . |
| 25 | It was laid up during the war and last ran in 1962 . |
| 26 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 27 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |