Example sentences of "are [verb] up by a [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 | These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The enthusiasm sometimes generated by a teachers ' centre whose advisory courses are backed up by a practical service can be considerable , and most valuable . |
| 5 | Her views are backed up by a 1989 Home Office report on fear of crime , chaired by Michael Grade . |