Example sentences of "up by the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
2 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
3 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
4 | I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’ |
5 | They were pulled up by the bell . |
6 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
7 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
8 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
9 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |
10 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
11 | The rules will be drawn up by the Law Society ‘ having regard ’ to suggestions made by a new lay-dominated independent advisory committee on legal education and conduct . |
12 | The claim , drawn up by the national executive , will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October . |
13 | Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p . |
14 | ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video . |
15 | Sir : Now that the dust kicked up by the mass raid on the Broadwater Farm estate last week has begun to settle , it is time to embark upon an assessment of its effects . |
16 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
17 | The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year . |
18 | The charges were backed up by the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , who said the film ‘ had no feeling of reality ’ . |
19 | By the end of 90 minutes I was close to the tosh school , but still buoyed up by the work 's genuine pleasures ; the unflagging force of its energy , the wit of its timing and the comic unlikeliness of some of its performers . |
20 | Criticism of alleged ‘ foreign interference ’ by Western embassies and news organisations in Burmese affairs has also been stepped up by the military . |
21 | Many quickly join relatives or friends living here , while the rest go to transitional camps set up by the Land governments . |
22 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
23 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
24 | Under the English White Paper , rights of audience rules drawn up by the Law Society in conjunction with an advisory committee will be subject to the ‘ concurrence ’ of four senior judges . |
25 | Next morning at ‘ stand-to' ’ there were the usual reports of wounded which were backed up by the increased activity of the jeeps carrying the casualties to the rear , among them several Airborne troops . |
26 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
27 | In the Wilson — Heath period of corporatism , local government had swollen in power and importance , especially after the massive eight metropolitan authorities set up by the Heath-Walker reforms in 1973 . |
28 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
29 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
30 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |