Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 2 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 3 | However , Martin ( 1979 ) predicted that if the shape of a letter was made up from smaller letters , then with instructions to respond on the basis of the overall configuration there should be a LVF advantage . |
| 4 | There are clear indications that this story was made up from older ones , and earlier compositions have been found which contain some of these features . |
| 5 | Around a fifth of the increase was taken up in greater activity , which resulted in a sharp fall in unemployment . |
| 6 | This type of choreography was taken up by later music-hall acts whose very eccentric soft shoe , sand dances before a background of pyramids and palm trees aroused much laughter . |
| 7 | This was divided up into smaller bags which were re-sealed and used as necessary ( leave a large bag open to the air and the fats in the food will oxidise , turning it rancid ) . |