Example sentences of "[verb] up by a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drummonds Bank was set up by a Scot in the Scottish end of London ( the name Scotland Yard dates from mediaeval times when the kings of Scotland and their ambassadors would lodge there . |
| 2 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 3 | According to Peter Cook and John Shergold , of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra , this event probably occurred through a sudden release of phosphates from the deep ocean brought up by a change in ocean currents or crustal movements . |
| 4 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 5 | Noreen bowed her head blushing in shame and was about to walk off when the song was taken up by a voice in the wings and out stepped Maria in her best dress to finish the song , ‘ To reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh ’ . |
| 6 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 7 | But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ . |