Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food will then be heated up by the elderly and disabled clients themselves . |
| 2 | Both are liable to be wound up by the English court . |
| 3 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 4 | It stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road to Bowes and it was there that merchants and farmers would leave butter eggs and other foodstuffs to be picked up by the afflicted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 7 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 8 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 9 | The save_set will then be picked up by the next incremental backup . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if they have mortgage arrears they can be called up by the Public Carriage Office for questioning . |
| 12 | The injury itself occurred as a result of a cross-field back-row move , bereft of forward movement , that was quickly going nowhere to be swallowed up by the English midfield . |
| 13 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 14 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 15 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 16 | I feel a large part of this question can now be summed up by the following : |
| 17 | LASMO employees around the world could be linked up by the latest in high-tech communications as early as next year . |
| 18 | A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system . |
| 19 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 20 | This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening . |
| 21 | The capital for the fund would be put up by the three governments . |
| 22 | We want the Government to think carefully and respond positively to our recommendations , because we are anxious that the rate of increase in the Budget from now on should not be jacked up by the powerful lobby of the industry and the influence that it can exert on the Government . |
| 23 | — Developing an analysis of society and the Church which will isolate the key tasks which should be taken up by the prophetic sector in the Church . |
| 24 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 25 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 26 | The colonic epithelial cell is probably the major site of acetylation of 5-ASA when the drug is delivered in an appropriate way to the colon , and as the N-acetyltransferase enzyme is cytosolic , 5-ASA must be taken up by the epithelial cell before acetylation can take place . |
| 27 | A right pain in the neck , in short , but in the end he will buy a copy — full retail price , no questions asked — and ( because collectors are generally tidy chaps ) will stack up neatly the rejects so that they may be snapped up by the mere purchaser or — even more gratifyingly undiscerning — the impulse buyer . |
| 28 | That would be backed up by the aforementioned midfield quartet plus a back four of Irwin , McGrath , Moran and Phelan with Bonner in goal . |