Example sentences of "up by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guide To Divorce , said : ‘ Courts are often horrified by the costs run up by lawyers . |
| 2 | These covenants may be carefully drawn up by lawyers seeking to create a system which will match the requirements of the particular landlord/tenant relationship . |
| 3 | The concourse was large , but uninspiring , particularly as the floor area was broken up by stairways down to the tracks . |
| 4 | Their litter-free sands are attractively broken up by bays , colourful fishing harbours , impressive rock formations , and , to the west , fjords more akin to Norway than that of the sandy Ibereian peninsula . |
| 5 | During the next 60 million years , about one-third of California was built up by accretions . |
| 6 | Critical opinion has divided specifically over the film 's most famous sequence : to save the commune the men eventually come together to dig a canal and as they dig tension is built up by drumbeats and speeded-up photography . |
| 7 | Agreement in principle on these standards was reached in December 1990 but formal approval was held up by attempts to introduce tougher standards . |
| 8 | On one occasion he and his travelling partner Don McCullin were lined up by Indonesians bearing automatic machine guns . |
| 9 | The shortfall has been made up by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum Society . |
| 10 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 11 | This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron . |
| 12 | MODERN molecular biology has finally answered one of the most important questions thrown up by experiments in the last century on the nature of genetic inheritance . |
| 13 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 14 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 15 | Its forecourt was taken up by miners and students writing such signs , while women and children were stopping traffic , thrusting paper signs over windscreens : ‘ We need to eat . ’ |
| 16 | Unlike stage-coaches , which could be readily held up by brigands in remoter regions , railways were immune from the start — except in the American West — even in notoriously unsafe areas such as Spain and the Balkans . |
| 17 | But they were held up by complications in getting visas . |
| 18 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 19 | The analysis represented by the Munn Report was indeed more sophisticated than that of the DES document ; the fact that the former was drawn up by professionals rather than civil servants may have something to do with this . |
| 20 | During the past three years , a feature has been the establishment of leasing companies set up by breweries , such as Inntrepreneur , Vanguard , and the Bass lease company . |
| 21 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 22 | The court has two objects in mind : first to give the tenant security for as long as the holding is not required for development ; secondly to ensure that when the landlord is ready to proceed with the development , the development is not held up by rights possessed by the tenant ( National Car Parks v Paternoster Consortium [ 1990 ] 1 EGLR 99 ) . |
| 23 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 24 | Often this conclusion is backed up by scientists ' discoveries of fossilized dinosaur footprints . |
| 25 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 26 | The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between . |
| 27 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 28 | I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’ |
| 29 | Rocks can also be broken up by microbes finding their way into cracks and crevices , exposing more surfaces which can then absorb more CO 2 , and so forth . |
| 30 | The actual payment or receipt of the option premium is effected when the position is closed , at the rate prevailing at that time , with the difference between that and the option price at the outset having been made up by payments of variation margin . |