Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BCCI to be wound up by High Court |
| 2 | To continue with Gregory 's example , his radio might emit a whine so high-pitched that it is undetectable to the human ear and can only be picked up by special test equipment . |
| 3 | This gives time for water to drain away or to be picked up by wet vacuum . |
| 4 | An RS232 interface is provided so that output can be picked up by another device such as a BBC micro with a disc drive . |
| 5 | The regional council says the Scottish Office is cutting £17 million from its £88 million capital allowance for each of the next two financial years under the mistaken belief that the money will be made up by European funding . |
| 6 | Was this erm differences in quality to be made up by more land ? |
| 7 | On top of this is the danger that other council car parks could be swallowed up by new development . |
| 8 | I used to be worried that I would die and Charmian would be brought up by another woman … |
| 9 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 10 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
| 11 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 12 | At best , therefore , Freud 's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research . |
| 13 | This could be followed up by subsequent research , possibly by comparing whether the migrants apply to more courses and institutions than non–enrollers . |
| 14 | The European grants , correctly assigned to Northern Ireland due to its isolation within the market and its relative poverty , should not be gobbled up by parsimonious Treasury Ministers as they hide behind the concept of additionality . |
| 15 | Gliadin fragments present at the microvillar membrane may be taken up by apical endocytosis . |
| 16 | The instigation of action , indeed of action research , is a matter which must mainly be taken up by in-service provision . |
| 17 | IN those circumstances , the nuclear element could remain between 20 and 25 per cent — based on a programme of replacing the older Magnox stations as they reach the end of their useful life — while the balance would be taken up by renewable energy . |
| 18 | A waste disposer can , of course , be fitted into a single main sink , but do make sure your building or house has the sort of drainage system that will not be fouled up by liquid refuse in bulk . |
| 19 | Planning policies were to be changed to encourage a mix of different kinds of housing , and this would be backed up by better policing , job creation programmes and incentives for shopkeepers to move to depressed areas . |
| 20 | There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’ |
| 21 | If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating . |
| 22 | To be effective , overt status has to be backed up by active status . |