Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 2 | The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished . |
| 3 | The stones were dug up by the earthmovers and placed here by farmer , Richard Cox . |
| 4 | Chichester , Burpham ( covering the Arun valley but replaced by Arundel after the Conquest ) , Lewes and Hastings were backed up by the ports at Bosham and Pevensey and the episcopal centre at Selsey . |
| 5 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 6 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 7 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 8 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 9 | The three men on board admitted to the smuggling attempt and a fourth man was picked up by the police as the waited in a parked car at the landing place . |
| 10 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 11 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 12 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 15 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |
| 16 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 17 | The revival of Evangelicalism in the later part of the eighteenth century was taken up by the groups whose passion for reform , restricting drunkenness and violent sports , were opposed to the whole basis of the Sussex labourers ’ principal recreations ; simple religious faith in fundamentals among ordinary people may not have been much affected , but organised religion was probably largely irrelevant to the pattern of daily life . |
| 18 | Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets . |
| 19 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 20 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
| 21 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 22 | Ghana symbolised West Africa before it was carved up by the Europeans ; it symbolised the African federation Nkrumah longed to assemble . |
| 23 | The crews ' allowance for baggage handling was carved up by the porters : if the crews objected , their baggage would remain in reception . |