Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 4 | Follow-up questions , particularly into critical areas , were drawn up for intensive two-day visits . |
| 5 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 6 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 7 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 8 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 9 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 10 | The 100 children were followed up for 4.9 ( 1.8 ) years ( minimum two years ) to a mean age of 16.1 ( 2.2 ) years . |
| 11 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 12 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 13 | Patients were followed up for six months with ultrasound and assessment of symptoms . |
| 14 | 1455 children entered the Health Study and were followed up for 1185 child-years ( 596 vitamin A group , 589 placebo group ) . |
| 15 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 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 | In the remaining 21 patients H pylori was not eradicated ( group 2 ) and these patients were followed up for 12–54 months ( median 24 months ) . |
| 18 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 19 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 20 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 21 | It was not only other ancient literature that was opened up for new understanding by the Renaissance : the Bible too began to be read with new eyes , eyes no longer focused simply by the authoritative teaching of the church . |
| 22 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |
| 23 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 24 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 25 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 26 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 27 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |
| 28 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |
| 29 | The Imperial 's chef , at last let loose in his own kitchen , was making up for lost honour . |
| 30 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |