Example sentences of "been [vb pp] up by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 2 | These sporting contests between the house and the village ended with the arrival of a character who could have been dreamt up by central casting . |
| 3 | The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation . |
| 4 | Two new bodies had been set up by presidential decree in September . |
| 5 | The letter from earlier in the year to the Chief Executive of the Council has been followed up by this department investigating its own use of peat — which is fairly limited . |
| 6 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |
| 7 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 8 | Birmingham-based ACT Group Plc 's ACT Computer Support Ltd and Professional Support Centre , an organisation providing personal computer-based software support , have been signed up by personal computer manufacturer Tandy Grid Systems Corp to offer computer support services to its customers : ACT will deal with on-site technical support , consulting , training and additional installations , while Professional will look after a hot-line and the initial diagnostic process . |
| 9 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 10 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 11 | Such a view would be wrong because many of the points of critique that we have just set down have been backed up by solid research into the concrete world of interests and groups . |
| 12 | In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations . |