Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The circumstances of Doe 's capture and his killing drained much of the credibility built up by the ECOMOG forces , then under the command of Lt.-Gen.
2 Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments .
3 These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are .
4 Canals did not create new towns ; those built up by the railway companies , such as Swindon , Crewe or Eastleigh , being concerned with the building of locomotives and rolling stock , had no parallel .
5 Trading in stock options and index futures suspended on June 25 , 1989 , following a stock market scandal [ see p. 36732 ] was resumed on Oct. 27 under new regulations drawn up by the capital markets regulator , the Comissao de Valores Mobiliários ( CVM ) , to prevent price manipulation and speculation .
6 The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 .
7 Fortunately , the breed had clear guidelines on which to develop drawn up by the breed clubs in Germany .
8 Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body .
9 On April 14 a report on the attacks drawn up by the UN offices in Tehran and Baghdad was submitted to UN Security Council .
10 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
11 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
12 She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series .
13 Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week .
14 The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation .
15 The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations .
16 The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century .
17 Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy .
18 Many quickly join relatives or friends living here , while the rest go to transitional camps set up by the Land governments .
19 In the Wilson — Heath period of corporatism , local government had swollen in power and importance , especially after the massive eight metropolitan authorities set up by the Heath-Walker reforms in 1973 .
20 The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions .
21 So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ?
22 One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements .
23 Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street .
24 The remaining three aircraft , seeing the intense opposition put up by the Harbour defences and no longer having the advantage of surprise , realised that they had no chance of entering the Harbour without being hit .
25 The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric .
26 Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians .
27 After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman .
28 The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm .
29 Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair .
30 It has been no more severely shocked than many of the specimens picked up by the Apollo astronauts who journeyed to the Moon to find them .
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