Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab masses , indignant at the western humiliation of Saddam Hussein , were expected to rise up against their pro-western leaders . |
| 2 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 3 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 4 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 5 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 6 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 7 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 9 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 10 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 11 | It was dreadful while you could n't remember what time tea break was , or what time breakfast was , or what time you were meant to line up for this , that or the other , or what time doses [ handing out medication ] was . |
| 12 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |
| 13 | Twenty five patients were lost to follow up for non-biliary reasons . |
| 14 | In particular , they do not include patients who died or were lost to follow up in the prolonged interval between treatment and the onset of symptoms . |
| 15 | Some were lost to follow up from clinic before fulfilling the entry criteria for longstanding disease ; others despite being eligible , were not entered . |
| 16 | All these major brewing companies were required to release up to 50 per cent of the public houses they owned , in excess of 2,000 outlets . |
| 17 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 18 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 19 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 20 | On the basis of the first computer projections after polling stations closed last night , the alliance of the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centre-right Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) was expected to win up to 85 per cent of the 577 parliamentary seats with just 40 per cent of the votes . |
| 21 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 22 | Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk . |
| 23 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 24 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 25 | He was told to go up to Cambridge , despite a shortfall of £60 in his funds , and that his college would do its utmost to ensure that he could carry on with his studies . |
| 26 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 27 | About 3 hours after her return to the ward she was helped to sit up in bed , propped up on pillows . |
| 28 | Later she was assisted to sit up in bed . |
| 29 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors ( i ) commented that the United Kingdom was moving towards economic recovery , that recovery was under way in the United States , that growth was projected to pick up in Italy and France , and that in Japan and Germany growth had slowed from the rapid pace in 1990 to a more sustainable rate ; ( ii ) noted the importance of strengthening global savings ; ( iii ) reaffirmed the need for effective measures to avoid the recurrence of " recent irregularities that were revealed in some financial markets " ( a reference in particular to scandals in Japan — see pp. 38529 — and to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International — see pp. 38396-37 ; 38355 ; 38545 ) ; ( iv ) called on the Paris Club to continue discussions on how best to implement promptly additional debt relief measures , on a case-by-case basis , which went well beyond the relief already granted under the " Toronto terms " [ see pp. 36123-24 ] ; and ( v ) noted that it was essential for developing countries to encourage private capital flows . |
| 30 | Beginning in 1991 , the government was authorized to allocate up to $500 million a year until the total liability of approximately $1,250 million was paid in compensation for losses incurred in the forced relocation of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in camps throughout the American west . |