Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 2 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 3 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 4 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 5 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 6 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 7 | A major new training initiative set up by the Women 's Unit and the Personnel Services Division could have a profound effect on women 's employment across Europe . |
| 8 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 9 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 10 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 11 | Leaving Christian pulling on his boots with the intention of going to assist the gipsies , Seb made his way to the camp set up by the road-makers . |
| 12 | Thai campaigners have also criticized poor standards in the centres set up by the police to hold animals seized during raids . |
| 13 | Even so , The Survivors is less convincing as a portrayal of a dire predicament than as a formal arrangement set up by the figures as they stretch and strain over the raft . |
| 14 | This was a newly independent state formed by the Allies around the nucleus of the Polish puppet state set up by the Germans in 1916 . |
| 15 | One of the main causes for concern brought up by the employees was not being involved with a number of changes that were taking place . |
| 16 | The £56 ( for fitting an Alfasud seat ) included a metal bar to reduce the space taken up by the safety-straps in the boot . |
| 17 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 18 | The accusation came after Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister — under fierce Labour and consumer group pressure — produced a list drawn up by the manufacturers on the 70 microwave oven models tested by Government scientists . |
| 19 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 20 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 21 | The issue of military corruption thrown up by the Pinocheques and La Cutufa cases [ see pp. 37852-53 ] had severely damaged the image of the army , which had projected itself as incorruptible and on this basis had hoped to defend itself successfully against charges of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship . |
| 22 | A pair of mallard and a lone wigeon are taking advantage of the weeds torn up by the swans , and a party of common gulls are bathing by the lochside . |
| 23 | The company set up by the defendants had also opened Bureaux de Change in Paris . |
| 24 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |
| 25 | The figure includes loans sold to the Co-operative Credit Purchasing Company , a loan-buying company set up by the banks themselves . |
| 26 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 27 | The negotiating position taken up by the unions will be an important factor , and Naville recognises that the behaviour of the unions will be influenced by many factors additional to the technology used in some trade union members ' firms . |
| 28 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 29 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |