Example sentences of "[det] [vb pp] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 2 | And I said , and she said oh well she said you know well it 's that 's how you 've got ta take it stripped , for me to take that to get that done up by a restorer you 'd have to take all the upholstery off , or quite a bit off |
| 3 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 4 | If winning one battle meant you won the war , IBM would have it all sewn up by now , but that 's not the case . |
| 5 | Okay , we do n't , but we do get them all tangled up by other people taking them away , and not bringing them back , and then we do n't know what we 've got , you know . |
| 6 | The wholesale fruit and poultry market opens before dawn on Saturday and is all packed up by seven o'clock in the morning . |
| 7 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 8 | According to K.M. Briggs , hobyahs were ‘ terrified of dogs , and with good reason , for they were finally all eaten up by a large black dog ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 9 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 10 | It was all taken up by the top brass you know . |
| 11 | The fund for Hungary mirrors that set up by Britain for Poland . |
| 12 | Elected people will no longer have an influence on local further education ; instead , the position will be similar to that set up by the Secretary of State for Health , where appointed quangos are in control . |
| 13 | Canals did not create new towns ; those built up by the railway companies , such as Swindon , Crewe or Eastleigh , being concerned with the building of locomotives and rolling stock , had no parallel . |
| 14 | Plainly such a set of guidelines as those drawn up by AIAS is entirely necessary , and to many readers the examples discussed here may seem rather extreme . |
| 15 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |