Example sentences of "were [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 2 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 3 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 4 | They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net . |
| 5 | Again , I do not think that individuals are to be blamed for this : whole societies were caught up in this sexist interpretation of reality . |
| 6 | The most illustrious names in retailing from the House of Fraser to Macy 's and Bloomingdale 's were caught up in leveraged and management buyouts . |
| 7 | Corpora were built up in each case to over 10,000 words , then domain-specific collocation dictionaries compiled using the method described earlier . |
| 8 | Although some excellent bookstocks were built up in this manner , the disadvantages of such a system are clear . |
| 9 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 10 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 11 | The hospital had a commitment to shared care with the patient and patient 's relatives and care plans were drawn up in full consultation with both . |
| 12 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 13 | I mean if you , in the agricultural depression of the nineteen thirties , that 's a depression that lasted erm , the best part of a decade , you know , but farmers did n't go out of production you know , for about five , six , seven years down the line , because virtually all of their assets were tied up in fixed assets . |
| 14 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |
| 15 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 16 | One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions . |
| 17 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 18 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 19 | And quite big families were brought up in some of these houses with only two bedrooms . |
| 20 | The " Green Con " awards were set up in 1989 to highlight bogus claims to environmental worthiness made by business . |
| 21 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 22 | Nine were set up in 1970 alone , and this rate was maintained through the decade of the 1970s , rising to fourteen in 1973 and dropping to seven in 1977 . |
| 23 | They were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time . |
| 24 | Special squads were set up in 1976 against what the Daily Mirror called " Britain 's army of dole queue swindlers " . |
| 25 | Local Marine Boards were set up in all main ports and a Shipping Master appointed by each to take administrative responsibility for masters ' and mates ' examinations and the business of engaging and discharging seamen under pain of penalty for " crimping " and other similar offences . |
| 26 | New Mental Health Tribunals were set up in each health region to deal with any complaints arising from compulsory admission procedures . |
| 27 | Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard . |
| 28 | Local centres , professionally staffed , were set up in many LEAs to act as focuses for the dissemination of each project 's materials . |
| 29 | This was a pattern to be followed when UDCs were set up in other areas in succeeding years . |
| 30 | The Central and National Wages Boards , the precursors of the national level of the current machinery , were set up in 1920 and given statutory status in the Railways Act 1921 . |