Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 2 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 3 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 4 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 5 | The oscillations stimulated in the sample are picked up by an arm attached to the rigidly fixed end held in torsion bars , and transmitted to a recorder by a linear variable differential transformer . |
| 6 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 7 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 8 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 9 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 10 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 11 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 12 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |
| 13 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 14 | At the shorter wavelength , the rings are lit up by the Sun 's radiation and shine brilliantly ; but methane in Saturn 's atmosphere absorbs at this wavelength and so the planet itself is virtually invisible . |
| 15 | He is furious that billions of pounds he wanted freed to put in people 's pockets are locked up by the banks ' determination to boost profits . |
| 16 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 17 | About now the small , tannic apples from which cider is made — ancient varieties like Brownsnouts , Kingston Blacks and Sweet Coppins — are coming up by the lorry load , shaken off the trees in the orchards by the men with long hooked poles . |
| 18 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 19 | The work of the council is in the main carried out in committees of the council which are set up by the council usually at its first meeting after the election is over . |
| 20 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 21 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 22 | These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year . |
| 23 | Both the coupon and the principal on index-linked gilts are scaled up by the ratio of two values of the RPI . |
| 24 | Large parts of West and South Middlesbrough are eaten up by the Langbaurgh and Stockton South constituencies . |
| 25 | take the view that erm they are put up by the Council from time to time for various reasons . |
| 26 | Now what happens when you go to the station on a Sunday to park your car and find all the spaces are taken up by a car boot , er the whole think is a nonsense and er frankly somebody should tell British Rail so er I wonder if this is Chairman a shot across the bows of er rail privat privatisation and if it is I welcome it . |
| 27 | The H atoms are taken up by an H carrier or acceptor , which is thereby REDUCED ( whereas the substrate is ‘ OXIDISED ) |
| 28 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 29 | From here the oils diffuse into the bloodstream or are taken up by the lymph and interstitial fluid ( a liquid surrounding all body cells ) to other parts of the body . |
| 30 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |