Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 2 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 3 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 4 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 5 | For the city 's planners the poor were a public danger , their potentially riotous concentrations to be broken up by avenues and boulevards which would drive the inhabitants of the crowded popular quarters they replaced into some unspecified , but presumably more sanitary and certainly less perilous locations . |
| 6 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 7 | Patriotic fervour expressed by burning effigies tended to stop short of much deeper involvement and although 14,102 men were liable to be called up by 1805 , another 9630 claimed exemption . |
| 8 | Simon was expected to be called up by the Army , and sent off God knew where . |
| 9 | The countryside all around , and the woods of the Buskett Gardens , and the bastions around Mdina , used to be lit up by torch-lights and bonfires . |
| 10 | It may be built up into shore features without undergoing movement along the beach or , more commonly , it is transported along the beach to a point where natural factors allow it to accumulate and to be built up by wave action . |
| 11 | This would occupy a fraction of a second which would have to be made up by hurrying over the next group of semiquavers , and would sound breathless and hectic . |
| 12 | Was this erm differences in quality to be made up by more land ? |
| 13 | The Continental C90–16F powerplant being equipped with a vacuum pump , the artificial horizon and DI erect immediately on starting and do not need to be spun up by the act of getting airborne , as happens with similarly-aged aeroplanes fitted with venturis . |
| 14 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 15 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 16 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 17 | The English , with no hope now of consummating the Rough Wooing , finally withdrew ; but the French were proving almost equally unwelcome , provoking fears among committed Protestant reformers that Scotland was to be swallowed up by yet another powerful nation , and this one Papist . |
| 18 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 19 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 20 | The injury itself occurred as a result of a cross-field back-row move , bereft of forward movement , that was quickly going nowhere to be swallowed up by the English midfield . |
| 21 | Its practitioners have now started to explore the legal hornet 's nest likely to be stirred up by in vitro fertilisation . |
| 22 | Throughout this Part of the Act , a sharp differentiation is made between the person who intends to stir up racial hatred , and a person who behaves in such a way that racial hatred is likely to be stirred up by his behaviour . |
| 23 | All sample members were to be followed up by the research team ( unless , of course , they died or moved away ) for a period of one year from the date of their referral to the project . |
| 24 | This would have to be followed up by provision of appropriate help . |
| 25 | At best , therefore , Freud 's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research . |
| 26 | In each case an interview with an establishment manager responsible for personnel and industrial relations will be sought , to be followed up by interviews with managers at one or more higher levels in the enterprise identified as being important in terms of personnel and industrial relations by the establishment respondent . |
| 27 | The Greenpeace action is intended to be followed up by a series of prosecutions involving companies who , the organisation believes , are exceeding limits of discharge into the Mersey which is one of Europe 's most seriously polluted rivers . |
| 28 | Rain in August tends to be soaked up by dehydrated plants and trees or sits on dry , baking former water courses waiting to evaporate . |
| 29 | The problem is compounded when we allow our leading businesses — Rowntree and perhaps Cadbury 's and others — to be bought up by foreign predators so that our muscle is destroyed . |
| 30 | ‘ The thought that any mother could manipulate their child into making this ludicrous and wicked cassette and appallingly arrange for it to be bought up by a TV network tells you all you have to know . ’ |