Example sentences of "thrown up by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changing this would require a vast input of resources : the best way forward would be to capitalise on all the training opportunities thrown up by the existing system . |
| 2 | Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval . |
| 3 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 4 | The more the government dislikes the income distribution thrown up by the free market , a distribution reflecting differences in innate ability , human capital , and financial wealth , the more the government is likely to judge that the inefficiency costs of distortionary taxes are a price worth paying in order to secure a more equitable distribution of income and utility . |
| 5 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 6 | Paul 's argument is that if you can get the word ‘ only ’ into your Christian thinking , then it will really help to sort out the dilemmas that were being thrown up by the different groups within the church . |
| 7 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 8 | While many indigenous workers moved up into better-paid , pleasanter and more skilled jobs , the immigrants were left the dirty , hard and low-paid work in the foundries and textile mills , as transport or catering workers or in sweat shops and small factories thrown up by the post-war boom . |