Example sentences of "[vb pp] up by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 2 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 3 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 4 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 5 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 9 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 10 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 11 | Both are liable to be wound up by the English court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 14 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 15 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 16 | In many respects Standy Credits are preferable to Bank Guarantees because virtually all Credits , including Standby Credits , issued by banks are subject to a set of internationally accepted rules drawn up by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris , known as UCP 400 . |
| 17 | ‘ I only know that the Meeting Notice was sent out according to a list drawn up by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 18 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 19 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 20 | The claim , drawn up by the national executive , will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October . |
| 21 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 22 | The following is a declaration of the rights of television viewers drawn up by the French Association of Television Viewers . |
| 23 | Their freedom comes after Saddam Hussein has welcomed the Gulf peace plan drawn up by the French President , Francois Mitterand . |
| 24 | We will decentralise planning decisions as much as possible , giving a key role to the local plan drawn up by the local authority . |
| 25 | So Deborah went with Farmer Plant and was washed and generally cleaned up by the motherly farmwife . |
| 26 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
| 27 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 28 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 29 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 30 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |