Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On April 14 a report on the attacks drawn up by the UN offices in Tehran and Baghdad was submitted to UN Security Council . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 7 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 8 | 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 . |