Example sentences of "been [verb] up by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 2 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 3 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 5 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 6 | Although this commentary appears on RSPB headed paper , has been drawn up by a community of interests , including CPRW . |
| 7 | In the case of Foresterhill , all the main clinical departments have given their support to the proposal — a proposal that has been drawn up by a multidisciplinary team . |
| 8 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 9 | A new code of conduct for street entertainers has been drawn up by a local authority . |
| 10 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 11 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 12 | It is interpretation carried out within an existing legal framework : where a trust has actually been set up by a settlor , and it is a matter for the jurist to interpret or elucidate details . |
| 13 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 14 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 15 | The Environmental Association of Tanzania ( ENATA ) has been set up by a group of professionals with skills in tackling environmental problems . |
| 16 | When the Clause was debated in the House of Lords early in 1988 , one Labour peer ‘ came out ’ as having been brought up by a ‘ pretended family ’ . |
| 17 | He , with his two elder brothers , had been brought up by a nanny , until , three years later , his father married Liz . |
| 18 | Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser : |
| 19 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 20 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 21 | The current status of computers and microcomputers in R&D , and the probable course of development in their use , is a more useful area of study and has been taken up by a group at Manchester Business School , UK ( Morse , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | What the paper scathingly called the ‘ story of the refugees ’ had been whipped up by a ‘ noisy propaganda campaign dripping with chauvinism and nationalism ’ . |
| 23 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 24 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 25 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 26 | Hemisphere imbalance may seem to explain schizophrenic symptoms , but like a good deal of the information on the development of schizophrenia , it has not yet been backed up by a convincing aetiological model . |
| 27 | Gardeners with bad backs will be rushing to buy the Leaf-Lifter , a vacuum cleaner that sucks up autumn leaves directly into disposable bags — it has already been snapped up by a company wanting to market it . |
| 28 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 29 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |