Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes traditional economies were broken up by European competition : the cultivation of indigo , for example , collapsed with the discovery of synthetic dyestuffs . |
| 2 | Later that Saturday afternoon , about 1400 hours , three of them , including Micky Wynn , were picked up by German patrol boats ; a fourth man , Able Seaman Len Denison , swam to a concrete pile in the river . |
| 3 | Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities . |
| 4 | It was suggested that no fewer than 300 million acres of grain-growing land were opened up by this railway . |
| 5 | New areas were opened up by speculative building programmes . |
| 6 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 7 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 8 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 9 | The large items were cut up by oxy-acetylene torch , and explosive was used to separate some of the steelwork from its foundations . |
| 10 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 11 | The prince and two crewmates in the 35ft The Ashes were carved up by another yacht in a race at Cowes , Isle of Wight . |
| 12 | What was most encouraging was the extent to which common goals and ideals were backed up by local collaboration and a significant amount of interaction at the field level ; what was most disappointing was that this continued to be overlaid by an enduring legacy of suspicion — even hostility — at more senior levels . |
| 13 | Until the 1950s , those who ran City Hall were backed up by hefty party machines . |
| 14 | Both were snapped up by anonymous telephone bidders who paid three times more than expected . |
| 15 | This argument was not expanded upon but the implication that there should be more evidence of ‘ class struggle ’ in the programme was picked up by Socialist Worker . |
| 16 | Some of the deficit thus created was made up by external aid , largely from Eastern bloc countries , though the European Community and Scandinavian countries also provided assistance . |
| 17 | Salt from the floors of these buildings seeped into the surrounding sub-soil and was drawn up by capillary action through the stones and mortar of the church . |
| 18 | WHEN the Royal Bank of Scotland was set up by Royal Charter in 1727 there was a very good reason for building the word ‘ Royal ’ into its name . |
| 19 | A new All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation was set up by presidential decree on Feb. 8 in place of Gosteleradio , the USSR State Television and Radio Committee . |
| 20 | It was pinned up by 75-year-old widow Aggie Ayres . |
| 21 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 22 | This type of choreography was taken up by later music-hall acts whose very eccentric soft shoe , sand dances before a background of pyramids and palm trees aroused much laughter . |
| 23 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 24 | The 42,000-ton rock , which had threatened to plunge into the lake and inundate the opposite shore with a huge wave , was blown up by Swiss army explosives experts . |
| 25 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 26 | This was backed up by each board being sent this material as the board was established . |