Example sentences of "up by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 2 | Nails came unexpectedly and rescued him , hauling him up by the chin and putting the rail under his hand . |
| 3 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 4 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 5 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 6 | When working with mice in an isolator they may be picked up by the base of their tail using a pair of large forceps with rubber sleeves on their tips . |
| 7 | After that my attention was taken up by the organisation 's move to the new building . |
| 8 | In the case of a City Code transaction where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , a separate contract ( which should be drawn up by the firm 's lawyers ) should form the basis of the firm 's responsibilities for making such an offer . |
| 9 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes . |
| 11 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 12 | They do this because the Milk Marketing Board , set up by the government , collects the milk from farms , wherever they are , and pays a fixed price for it . |
| 13 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 14 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 15 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 16 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |
| 17 | Duncan Graham was the first boss of the council set up by the Government to decide what should be taught in schools . |
| 18 | ‘ Rapid Response Brigades ’ , set up by the government to deal with any sign of ‘ counter-revolution ’ , have harassed people working for human rights organisations or unofficial political opposition groups . |
| 19 | In Israel , the Landau Commission , set up by the Government , said that non-violent psychological pressures could be used , then ‘ moderate physical pressure ’ . |
| 20 | With the beginning of the war , the Emergency Medical Service ( EMS ) was set up by the Government . |
| 21 | On September 15th , William Joyce ( Director of Propaganda ) called together the principal Party speakers and delivered to them what amounted to a tirade against Jews and the attitude taken up by the Government on anti-Semitism . |
| 22 | The apparently set commercial format of ITV in the UK was rudely upset during 1991 by a novel — and pretty ill-thought-out — scheme dreamed up by the government to distribute new licences for ITV1 . |
| 23 | As one of the aims of the reform of local government is to impose a ceiling on local authority expenditure , it is unlikely that the formula drawn up by the Government will allow a generous provision of local services . |
| 24 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 25 | Revised estimates drawn up by the government and central bank towards the end of 1989 showed the country 's economic situation to be worse than previously thought , with a current-account deficit of dollars 2,029 million for 1988 , although the situation was expected to improve in the early 1990s as a result of increased oil revenues . |
| 26 | Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime . |
| 27 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on June 13 ordered major revisions to a programme drawn up by the government to introduce a market economy . |
| 28 | These talks , boycotted or disrupted by the employers and unions since their initiation , had been set up by the government on Sept. 20 following widespread unrest in May and July [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 29 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 30 | In November 1990 the Harms Commission , set up by the government to investigate allegations of political murders , had recommended an investigation of allegations that the CCB was implicated in assassinations of ANC activists . |