Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 2 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 3 | They were picked up in London , Essex , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , Bucks , Dorset , and Newcastle . |
| 4 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 5 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 6 | These factors were : ( 1 ) its organisation which acquired the films and the exclusive overseas rights therein was in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) its sales organisation was in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the representatives who were sent abroad were part of the Hong Kong sales organisation ; ( 4 ) the sub-licences were drawn up in Hong Kong , according to Hong Kong law , and were dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 5 ) the films were either delivered in or dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 6 ) the films at the expiry of the sub-licence period had to be returned to Hong Kong or were destroyed ; and ( 7 ) payments for the grant of the sub-licences were received in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | We knew the rents were going up in Tottenham mews and we could n't find any good , affordable space in town . |
| 8 | Even though it was daylight the strings of coloured bulbs were lit up in Sir Walter Raleigh Park . |
| 9 | Army reservists were called up in Belgrade on May 7 and soldiers were placed on May 8-9 on guard at three Danube bridges ( hitherto controlled by Croatian police ) amid fears that the tensions would spread to Bosnia-Hercegovinia , where the residents of villages near Listica were blocking the passage of a military convoy into Croatia . |
| 10 | Their six children were brought up in Thornaby . |
| 11 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 12 | So you were brought up in Nottingham were you ? |
| 13 | By the time he was nine both parents had died , and Trevor and his sister were brought up in Wisbech by their maternal grandparents . |
| 14 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 15 | On a constitutional point , does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health , trade and industry , and taxation north of the border — |
| 16 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 17 | Humanities computing centres were set up in Oxford , Liege , Tubingen and other places . |
| 18 | On 28 June 1919 the Treaty was put into effect and plebiscites were set up in Warmia , Mazuria and Silesia to determine the exact areas of land to be allocated to Poland . |
| 19 | Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement . |
| 20 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | Stalls were set up in Rainey Street , Queen Street and Market Square , while police diverted traffic away from the town centre . |
| 22 | Other important curriculum development centres were set up in Ghana ( 1967 ) and Zambia ( 1970 ) . |
| 23 | Peripheral day hospitals and day centres were set up in Malvern and Evesham . |
| 24 | In the early sixties , two long-term chimpanzee projects were set up in Tanzania : Jane Goodall 's in the wooded savannah around the Gombe Stream Research Center , and Toshida Nishida 's in the Mahale Mountains , some 200km south . |
| 25 | Women 's Aid Centres were set up in Dublin and other major cities as I was preparing to leave Ireland . |
| 26 | Three " Serbian Autonomous Regions " were set up in Bosnia in mid-September . |
| 27 | However , in the event , Soviet regimes were set up in Estonia and Latvia in October 1917 , but were overthrown by German occupation . |
| 28 | Limited British mining operations in the Messines Ridge were stepped up in September 1915 , and galleries began to be dug that reached a depth of 27m/90ft . |
| 29 | Lockyer 's ideas were taken up in Germany by researchers such as Albrecht and Leugering , the latter of whom , in the 1920s , found alignments in his native Westphalia . |
| 30 | In particular , the realistic novel had played an important part in shaping Progressive America and the themes of those novels were taken up in Hollywood as the studios struggled to find a formula for fiction films that would be acceptable to the highly politicized cities of the East and Midwest . |