Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 2 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 3 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 4 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 5 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 6 | Spinrad says that such a huge range in velocity is quite unexpected It could be stirred up by the central jets which produce the radio emission . |
| 7 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 8 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 9 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 10 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 11 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 12 | The joint declaration was based on a 14-page draft document drawn up by the participating countries at a preparatory meeting in Bolivia on Jan. 10 [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 13 | Further proposals for defence cuts had been drawn up by the armed forces in November 1989 on Cheney 's orders , in an effort to save some $180,000 million in the period to 1994 . |
| 14 | In 1979 the ensuing Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution ( CLRTAP ) , drawn up by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UN ECE ) , was signed by 34 countries including all Western and Eastern European states , America and Canada . |
| 15 | Plans to charge businesses for the pollution of Britain 's waterways have been drawn up by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) for implementation in July . |
| 16 | Despite an existing voluntary Code of Practice , reproduced in part below , drawn up by the National Farmers ' Union to minimise any nuisance and existing legal controls , complaints appear to be on the increase . |
| 17 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 18 | He 's hauled up by the scraped elbows , |
| 19 | This being a self-acting incline the empty trucks were dragged up by the full ones , the long chain or rope to which they were linked , passing , of course , around the sheaved wheel the stanchions for which are still to be seen . |
| 20 | Life was getting harder for village shops : ‘ All the little firms we dealt with started to disappear , getting swallowed up by the big boys . |
| 21 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 22 | Some interesting names were called up by the Welsh selectors . |
| 23 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 24 | He accepted the ‘ desire to remain neutral ’ , interpreted as ‘ the reluctance of one or other state to participate in military-political blocs set up by the imperialist powers ’ as a ‘ favourable phenomenon ’ . |
| 25 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 26 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 27 | Two different health structures have developed in El Salvador : the ‘ official ’ state and private health systems on the one hand , and the ‘ popular ’ health system set up by the popular organizations and the guerrilla movement of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) . |
| 28 | Our own central social services inspectorate will be not only carrying out its own inspections , but also checking on the quality and systems of the arm's-length inspectorates that have been set up by the local authorities . |
| 29 | I enclose details of a new forum being set up by the National Rivers Authority to try to reconcile and manage the competing range of interests that value the river Wye as a resource . |
| 30 | Sheep farmer Alison Hunter Blair has a lamb which has been orphaned after it 's mother died , now through a special lamb bank set up by the national farmers union she 'll be able to find a new mother for the lamb . |