Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |
| 2 | If is often said that as people get older they care less what other people think , but it has never been so true as in the last 25 years , when women who were brought up to propitiate the more powerful sex gradually realised that it was no longer necessary — or , at least , not always necessary — to do so . |
| 3 | People of my generation were brought up to admire the sacrifice of life and happiness for others , the hope that we can live up to what this means in ordinary , dull practice . |
| 4 | In some societies the practical importance of dreams as portents of the future and as phenomena with mysterious healing properties was not only recognized but institutions were set up to exploit the fact . |
| 5 | Two commissions were set up to regulate the Danube , on which no warships were to be allowed below the Iron Gates . |
| 6 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 7 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 8 | authorities in Moscow plan a showpiece funeral for the family — and even a ‘ theme park ’ on the site where they were dug up to commemorate the atrocity . |
| 9 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 10 | The contract was drawn up to safeguard the teachers ' rights in the situation . |
| 11 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 12 | This emergency centre in Oxford was set up to coordinate the response to just such an incident . |
| 13 | The General Practitioner Board was set up to represent the interests of general practitioners . |
| 14 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 15 | A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures . |
| 16 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 17 | The Lindop Inquiry was set up to examine the maintenance of standards in the polytechnics and colleges sector of UK higher education . |
| 18 | The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment . |
| 19 | A commission headed by the newly appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General was set up to examine the incident . |
| 20 | The English Association was set up to promote the maintenance of " correct use of English , spoken and written " , the recognition of English as " an essential element in the national education " , and the discussion of teaching methods and advanced study as well as the correlation of school with university work.48 From the beginning , personnel attached to the new Board of Education seem to have been sympathetic to the view of English as the most natural candidate to lead a mission of cultural renewal : at any rate , from its inception the English Association set out to ensure that such was the case . |
| 21 | This was set up to promote the theory and findings of Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer , who claims that the real causes of cancer are mental conflict experienced in isolation . |
| 22 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |
| 23 | An army camp that was set up to support the Normandy landings and has become the lynchpin of the British Army is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 24 | In 1985 a working party was set up to formulate the CAB 's anti-racist policy , briefed by NACAB central office 's ethnic minorities specialist services officer and the growing Black Workers Group . |
| 25 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 26 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 27 | After further discussion a small group consisting initially of Eileen , Maureen , Crawford and Leah , was set up to plan the next such gathering . |
| 28 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
| 29 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 30 | A team led by LOPL 's general manager , Rupert Kidd , and consisting of Lewis Affleck and Martin White was set up to tackle the problem . |