Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 2 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 3 | This form of modern-day slavery also exists in the Dominican Republic where thousands of Haitians are bought or rounded up by the military to work in appalling conditions on sugar-cane plantations . |
| 4 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 5 | They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau . |
| 6 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 7 | They took the road past Mr Zamoyski 's shop and pulled up by the bowling green . |
| 8 | The greens were crudely protected and kept up by the Artisans . |
| 9 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 10 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 11 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 12 | It makes no sense to talk of unqualified ‘ parents rights ’ , and parental participation in investigations and case conferences — one of the concerns voiced in the Rochdale report and picked up by the press . |
| 13 | At Torry Bay the main constraints — involving questions like suitability of available soil substrate , survival of reeds in a brackish environment , and conformity of results to Purification Board standards — have been tested and overcome ; the pilot is to give way this year to a full-scale artificial reed-bed of 11 acres , treating domestic waste from a population of 8,000 people , and backed up by a £500,000 grant from an EC North Sea protection programme . |
| 14 | He 's helping in a scheme started by the Rural Development Commission , and backed up by the Workout Charity . |
| 15 | Hitler was so very strong , and backed up by the Italians could put all the weight of his Panzers against the Soviets . |
| 16 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |