Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [verb] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 2 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 3 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 4 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 5 | He is furious that billions of pounds he wanted freed to put in people 's pockets are locked up by the banks ' determination to boost profits . |
| 6 | At the shorter wavelength , the rings are lit up by the Sun 's radiation and shine brilliantly ; but methane in Saturn 's atmosphere absorbs at this wavelength and so the planet itself is virtually invisible . |
| 7 | And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too . |
| 8 | Both the coupon and the principal on index-linked gilts are scaled up by the ratio of two values of the RPI . |
| 9 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 10 | These findings are backed up by the ‘ panel ’ research I mentioned earlier . |
| 11 | Potentially insipid womblings are fired up by the kind of melodies that demand attention first and slip into something more comfortable later on . |