Example sentences of "been [verb] up by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery . |
| 2 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 3 | No p what Peter said was , if it has n't been picked up by the lab and it 's an internal problem , it can be dealt with internally . |
| 4 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 5 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 6 | I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary . |
| 7 | The disclosure letter had been drawn up by the defendant on this belief and by its actions the plaintiff was estopped from complaining that the fact should have been included in the disclosure letter . |
| 8 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |
| 9 | A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you . |
| 10 | A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you . |
| 11 | Canon law , however , gave grounds for supporting that an incompetent king , ‘ rex inutilis ’ , could be required to abdicate , and the articles against the king , which may have been drawn up by the Bishop of Winchester , allege that his ‘ uselessness ’ had brought damage and destruction to the Church , people and realm of England . |
| 12 | The plan has been drawn up by the city council , British Waterways and the National Rivers Authority after months of negotiations . |
| 13 | This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) . |
| 14 | She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series . |
| 15 | The Israeli government also announced on Aug. 23 that some of the approximately 280 houses in the West Bank and the Gaza strip which had been sealed up by the army since 1987 would be unsealed . |
| 16 | A number of working groups have been set up by the Council to look at these matters , but the truth is that the whole curriculum approach is rendered horrendously difficult by the subject structure and by the inevitable fact that the various subject working party reports are coming on stream over a period of at least four to five years . |
| 17 | The barbecue had been set up by the lake , whither Matthew and Sara were conducted by the white-jacketed foreign butler . |
| 18 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 19 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 20 | The board have been set up by the Countryside Commission , West and East Sussex Country Councils and the 11 borough and district councils in the area . |
| 21 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 22 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 23 | And the Glass Pig has been set up by the Midsummer Charity Trust , which runs seven residential homes and farms in Herefordshire . |
| 24 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
| 25 | The practical effect of this is illustrated by the case of Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 629 where at the time of entering the contract the business was exclusively a credit-betting business and it was accepted by all parties that the validity of the covenant fell to be tested without regard to the fact that subsequently betting shops became legal and that a betting shop had been set up by the plaintiff . |
| 26 | A working group on ‘ Active Membership ’ has been set up by the section to explore ways of increasing campaigning by national members . |
| 27 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 28 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 29 | With the help of the team while they were in Africa , a Transport Manager ( employed by the Government of Zimbabwe ) was selected as part of this project and has now been followed up by the appointment of a transport adviser ( employed by SCF ) to provide ongoing advice and guidance in implementing the proposed arrangements . |
| 30 | Criticism of alleged ‘ foreign interference ’ by Western embassies and news organisations in Burmese affairs has also been stepped up by the military . |