Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 32 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 33 | The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust |
| 34 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 35 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 36 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 37 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 38 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 39 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 40 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 41 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 42 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 43 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 44 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 45 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 46 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 47 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 48 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 49 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |