Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 2 | In this article , Veronica Hanson describes a scheme that was set up by the Welsh Pre-school Playgroups Association ( PPA ) to encourage the integration into local playgroups of children who experience difficulties in learning . |
| 3 | And not to that kind of limp posture that was summed up by the princ principal of the theological college er with the word inertia . |
| 4 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 5 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 6 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 7 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 8 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 9 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 10 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |
| 11 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |