Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] up by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a handful of POCs in the early Sixties , the number of cases taken up by Amnesty now stands at 42,000 of which 38,000 are now closed . |
| 2 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 3 | Sister Hope told me she 'd known a couple of pneumonias opened up by mistake . ’ |
| 4 | The Vision of Elena Silves , despite its rather cautious prose style , is in the end a quite moving story of individuals swallowed up by dogma 's greedy maw . |
| 5 | De Vries soon lost interest and began to promote his ‘ mutation theory ’ , which stressed the role of saltations backed up by evidence that significant new characters were being produced in cultivated populations of the evening primrose . |
| 6 | Paul 's donor was found by the Anthony Nolan Trust , a register of donors set up by Shirley Nolan when her 7 year old son died from a rare bone marrow disease before a donor could be found . |
| 7 | A FORMER soldier who lives in the Republic is high on the list of suspects drawn up by intelligence analysts hunting an IRA sniping team operating along the border . |
| 8 | Later , large concentrations of police backed up by tanks appeared on the streets . |
| 9 | THE main public response to A Force for Change is the Plus Programme , a continuing series of measures drawn up by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charles Pollard and Commander Alec Marnoch . |
| 10 | When he comes back he is wearing a shirt and a pair of socks held up by suspenders . |
| 11 | Of course , one of the new breed of select committees can review any matter that falls within its ambit , but their reports tend to lack the prestige of inquiries set up by ministers . |
| 12 | Management acknowledged the de facto authority of the so-called general plenum of representatives set up by opposition groups among the workforce ( Martino de Jugo 1980 : 202–4 , El País , 3 November 1976 ) . |