Example sentences of "was also [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such scheme involved the purchase of the Daily Express by Max Aitken with party funds , but the party was also propping up the Globe , the Standard , and a wide range of provincial dailies . |
| 2 | Kinane , making a flying visit home between last weekend 's Breeders ' Cup meeting in Florida and resuming his contract job in Hong Kong , was also bringing up his domestic century for the season . |
| 3 | If the ‘ Free Church Movement ’ was bound up , at least in its leaders ' minds with the cause of union , it was also bound up with politics , at least in the minds of its supporters . |
| 4 | Locally , the telephone was also speeding up business . |
| 5 | The houseproud teenager was also tidying up her career . |
| 6 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 7 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 8 | While the intention was also to speed up procedures , the initial introduction caused some practical difficulties . |
| 9 | Even from the shore I could tell that it had half strangled itself in a length of fishing line ; it was also hooked up in several places and carrying some heavy land weights . |
| 10 | King Vidor showed with The Champ that he was very much at home in what Hollywood was now establishing as ‘ the city ’ but not surprisingly he was also taking up other challenges . |
| 11 | And beside him , an elderly priest in a black soutane was also holding up a thumb and laughing as though he were taking part in a particularly outrageous joke . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I have n't , ’ said Sally , ‘ and Ed was also fed up by the way the deal was done . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he was also building up a store of resentment which might be inconvenient in a crisis . |
| 14 | In the same period , a smaller but nonetheless very important gap was also opening up between Barth and Brunner . |
| 15 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |
| 16 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 17 | An administration to rule in his name was also set up . |
| 18 | A 16-member commission to draft a new constitution was also set up . |
| 19 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 20 | Much of Fr John 's time was also taken up visiting his outstations and taking Mass and the sacraments to the people who were visited every three months . |
| 21 | Loveless 's cause was also taken up by defenders ranging from William Cobbett and Edward Bulwer Lytton ( later first Baron Lytton ) to Joseph Hume and Daniel O'Connell [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 23 | It was also picked up by Dr Dobbs ' sister publication Unix Magazin in Germany . |
| 24 | But the third was also paired up and came home with me . |
| 25 | The auditorium was also lined up on a semi-circular plan ( 128 ) . |
| 26 | Passco of Leith Road was also wound up due to a £9,420 debt owed to Lombard Natwest Factors after repeated demands for payment . |
| 27 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 28 | ( At the same time , though its existence was naturally concealed from the rank-and-file , a ‘ Line of Panic ’ was also drawn up on the inner circle of forts , Belleville , Souville , Tavannes and Moulainville . |
| 29 | Precious Link was 2lb out of the handicap and trainer Bill Turner got a mild shock when he found that Davies was also putting up 3lb overweight . |