Example sentences of "were [vb pp] up [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further demonstrations in the capital on March 28 , calling for the President 's resignation , were broken up by police using tear gas and stun grenades . |
| 2 | During 1989 demonstrations organized by the opposition group Democratic Union ( DU ) were broken up by police and arrests were made ; several DU members were imprisoned ( including Sergei Kuznetsov , a Sverdlovsk editor ) . |
| 3 | Several demonstrations across the country were broken up by police using tear gas during August . |
| 4 | Grand prix motor cars were painted up like buses to advertise cigarettes and even contraceptives . |
| 5 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 6 | Each day during filming , the supporting cast were picked up by limousines and taken to Shepperton Studios or Bovingdon RAF base in Hertfordshire . |
| 7 | It was only when Mr Wilson-Brown , 39 , and his wife , Pat , decided that the hens , like themselves , were fed up with politicians and switched to pop music on Radio 1 that the problem was solved . |
| 8 | Last year two thousand people in Great Britain needed bone marrow transplants — but only about two hundred of them were matched up with donors . |
| 9 | If the file were made up of documents , books or papers the overall classification would probably be based on subject , and the order within subject might well be accession date . |
| 10 | The craze hit Dallas in 1907 and it was observed that the first audiences were made up of women and children ; only later did men follow . |
| 11 | It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones . |
| 12 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 13 | To a large extent , their numbers were made up of tourists , people who happened to be passing by , people with time to kill , and people who simply fancied doing something different . |
| 14 | The UDCs were made up of representatives of financial institutions , private developers , construction firms and manufacturing industry . |
| 15 | All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops . |
| 16 | Fishermen reported hearing the explosion and bits of debris were washed up for months afterwards . |
| 17 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 18 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 19 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 20 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 21 | The room was as bare as if all the brothers ' possessions were packed up in trunks and cases and put away in preparation for imminent departure . |
| 22 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 23 | Only a couple escaped , the rest were herded up like pigs and dragged to headquarters for interrogation . |
| 24 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 25 | There were about twenty applications for the editor 's job , which were marked up under headings of ‘ politics ’ ( most got zero ) and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 26 | MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ . |
| 27 | There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age : |
| 28 | When we were set up with drinks , Pyke said , ‘ Tell me about yourself . ’ |
| 29 | So much so that , despite the recession , more than 250,000 new businesses have been started in the last 12 months — and over a third were set up by women . |
| 30 | This was particularly noticeable when hostels were set up by individuals or by groups of sympathisers , rather than by religious or other charitable organisations . |