Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up by [art] [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 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 3 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 4 | The remaining three aircraft , seeing the intense opposition put up by the Harbour defences and no longer having the advantage of surprise , realised that they had no chance of entering the Harbour without being hit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That was just bullshit made up by the producers . |
| 9 | The indignation stirred up by the gutter press in Nuremberg focuses on Dr Fohrbeck 's religious convictions . |
| 10 | A cat curled up by the boot-scraper at the front door of the Prince 's headquarters where the sentry , a British redcoat , stooped to fondle the animal 's warm fur . |
| 11 | Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House . |
| 12 | He hopes to have around 400 pubs snapped up by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Trent imagined Golden Girl picked up by the surf and flung tumbling and splintering into fragments . |
| 14 | Getting trained people to remote villages to administer the drug every year — often along tracks churned up by the rain — will be a formidable task . |
| 15 | Within such an institutional arrangement there is , by implication , little room for alternative practices , including those possibilities opened up by the women 's and gay liberation movements of the period , and it is such an arrangement that constituted , for Gummer , the previously existing moral consensus . |
| 16 | Subtract that figure from the score notched up by the weeds and we shall then be in a position to predict the number of traits that an average crop plant would have to acquire in order to become weedy . |
| 17 | The ghosts conjured up by the concept of existence thus reappear to haunt us . |
| 18 | The unsavoury reputation which the last of the sultans acquired during the late nineteenth century — especially Abdülaziz ( 1861–76 ) and Abdülhamid II ( 1876–1909 ) — has coloured the view which many western historians have taken of the Ottoman empire as a whole , but to many Christian subjects the Ottoman empire in its heyday was far from the horrific picture conjured up by the use of the phrase ‘ the long Turkish night ’ . |
| 19 | A team put up by the store won the pancake tossing dash . |
| 20 | In a letter penned on behalf of the Archbishop of Rouen by a famous stylist , Peter of Blois , Eleanor was reminded that it was a wife 's duty to submit , a reminder backed up by the threat of ecclesiastical sanctions . |
| 21 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 22 | The new frontiers opened up by the development of the sciences through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken them far beyond the model of the machine and revealed a far greater degree of randomness and unpredictability in the fundamental structure of the universe . |
| 23 | I ca n't keep on fishing in this bag , she said , and then she had a holy water stoup put up by the door , and filled it with them , you just took some on the way out . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There has been speculation among local climbers that the individuals responsible for the chipping of Hareless Heart are also to blame on this occasion ; a theory backed up by the likelihood that the vandals had some level of climbing expertise . |
| 28 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 29 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 30 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |