Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 2 | Perhaps more important for our purposes is the economists ' view of law which is something quite different from that of the lawyers ' traditional idea of a command backed up by a sanction . |
| 3 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 4 | He adjusted his blue-tinted pilot-style glasses with a hand that wore a broad gold ring backed up by a gold cufflink in the shape of a reef-knot . |
| 5 | There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project . |
| 6 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 7 | On a G7 scorecard drawn up by a coalition of environmental groups , Britain came bottom on efforts to tackle pollution and global warming . |
| 8 | LIFESPAN will report discrepancies between this reference and the versions called up by a package during QA checking . |
| 9 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 10 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 11 | up in firkins in seven gallon firkins hoisted up by a winch . |
| 12 | It was built in 1852 by J.W. Wild , who modelled it — if you please — on the tower of the town hall in Siena ; its purpose was to provide the docks with their own hydraulic power , having a huge tank of water pumped up by a steam engine . |
| 13 | According to Peter Cook and John Shergold , of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra , this event probably occurred through a sudden release of phosphates from the deep ocean brought up by a change in ocean currents or crustal movements . |
| 14 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 15 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 16 | As firemen finally brought the tanker blaze under control , the captain was asked why he tried to dock his ship in fog , rain and seas whipped up by a force nine gale . |
| 17 | It is interesting to compare the aspects of language which are highlighted by Bullock and Stubbs with those which are highlighted in a document drawn up by a group of educationalists whose expertise is not primarily in the field of language study . |
| 18 | A telephone call alerting them briefly to the problem followed up by a letter is usually the most effective approach . |
| 19 | This positive approach to the challenges offered by the Tunnel is also evident in the activities of Projenor , a company set up by a number of organisations involved in the Channel Tunnel including Eurotunnel , SNCF , local and regional authorities in France , and major financial institutions such as the Belgian Credit Communal and the Midland Bank . |
| 20 | Windsor played the long-time head of a boys ' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive . |
| 21 | Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare … . |
| 22 | Under the single payments system grants , involving certain rights to payment backed up by a right of appeal to an independent tribunal , disbursed some £350 million in 1986/7 . |