Example sentences of "was [verb] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In one particular case the Education Committee neglected this way of life argument and only argued the closure on financial grounds ( against Regional policy ) but they were forced to reverse their decision when the matter was taken up by the local MP . |
| 32 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 33 | Thakin Thein Pe made his way out to India where he received scant encouragement until he was taken up by the cloak-and-dagger organisation , Force 136 , which was desperately trying to justify its mysterious and expensive existence . |
| 34 | A founder in 1913 of the Anglo-Hellenic League , he wrote numerous articles supporting Greek territorial claims and upholding Venizelos in his feud with King Constantine I. With R. W. Seton-Watson [ q.v. ] , a colleague at King 's , Burrows formulated in the autumn of 1915 the unsuccessful scheme , which was taken up by the Foreign Office , to lure Greece into the war of 1914–18 on the side of the entente through the offer of Cyprus . |
| 35 | This theatrical cry was taken up by the assembled Franks and Romans , and all present , including the pope , prostrated themselves before Charles in the ancient manner reserved for Emperor of Rome . |
| 36 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 37 | A barrier designed to stop vehicles gaining access to Orford Ness and damaging flood defences and wildlife habitat was put up by the National Rivers Authority last year and is controlled by the FCO . |
| 38 | The bridge , named after Francis Joseph 's empress , was blown up by the retreating Germans in 1944 and the present structure dates from the early 1960s . |
| 39 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 40 | This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band . |
| 41 | The discipline of the points made constant supervision unnecessary , with the sergeant able to strike randomly at any one of sundry crossroads , an arbitrary arrangement whose authority was backed up by the total recall of the Beat Book record . |
| 42 | Her best show for Complicite , a nightmarish version of Durrenmatt 's The Visit , was snapped up by the National Theatre . |