Example sentences of "are [verb] up by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year . |
| 4 | It is possible for a series of nick points to migrate up a stream and for the whole series to coalesce when they are held up by a resistant bed . |
| 5 | The enthusiasm sometimes generated by a teachers ' centre whose advisory courses are backed up by a practical service can be considerable , and most valuable . |
| 6 | Her views are backed up by a 1989 Home Office report on fear of crime , chaired by Michael Grade . |
| 7 | By pointing and clicking on various analysis tools , which are backed up by an on-line help system , users can generate a number of graphs , box plots , and contour plots to help isolate particular factors , test theories and build models . |
| 8 | The Heron proposals , which are backed up by an independent report by Price Waterhouse , provide bankers will the latest revaluations of Heron 's portfolio . |
| 9 | The chairman of the TEC , David Houghton , and his team are backed up by an able chief executive — Roy Knott . |