Example sentences of "[verb] up by [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals . |
| 2 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 3 | The programme for the first year was drawn up by the three partners during a week-long visit to Fife . |
| 4 | The single person 's allowance goes up by a hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 5 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 6 | The Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing ( SACIM ) , set up by the four countries , plans a range of measures to exclude poached ivory from the trade , including marking legally obtained ivory with a hologram , bar code and serial number . |
| 7 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 8 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 9 | An Equal Opportunities Commission , set up by the 1975 Act , oversees the working of the Acts : it may conduct formal investigations , and seek to enforce the law by civil proceedings . |
| 10 | Planning control as set up by the 1947 Act was not therefore revolutionary but evolutionary , building on aspects of the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1932 and 1944 which extended the requirement for planning permission to the whole of the country , albeit ineffectively . |
| 11 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 12 | As a first step in describing this debate , consider the positions taken up by the two leading naturalists at the end of the eighteenth century , the Swede Linnaeus and the Frenchman Buffon . |
| 13 | The capital for the fund would be put up by the three governments . |
| 14 | Her views are backed up by a 1989 Home Office report on fear of crime , chaired by Michael Grade . |
| 15 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 16 | ELITE United States troops backed up by a dozen helicopters stormed a building in south Mogadishu today and arrested 17 Somali militiamen after a brief gunfight , a United Nations military spokesman said . |