Example sentences of "being [verb] up by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | an image in which the subject has continuous shades of colour or grey without being broken up by dots . |
| 2 | The survivors were all being treated for hypothermia after being picked up by helicopters and coastguards . |
| 3 | Coupons to prove Ukrainian residence in order to buy food and consumer goods were abolished on July 1 , but a new type of coupon was introduced from Aug. 1 as a measure to prevent stocks being bought up by consumers from outside the republic . |
| 4 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 5 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 6 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 7 | As suggested above , this slum area may well be the context in which ‘ fronts ’ are being put up by individuals in the processes of day-today interaction . |
| 8 | And in Dusseldorf police said a member of the Republican party suffered a heart attack after being beaten up by demonstrators . |
| 9 | The thing that 's flying towards me is multicoloured — I 'm being beaten up by colours — grass-green violet scarlet beige BANG rust indigo lime BANG ! rose-pink slate-grey flame-orange BANG BANG ! — and the colours have got my face . |
| 10 | Between 1984 and 1990 , England and Wales lost 53,000 miles of hedgerow , nearly 20 per cent of the total , from a combination of neglect and being grubbed up by farmers for mechanised farming . |
| 11 | Some of them being held up by friends . |