Example sentences of "[verb] up by a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His current philosophy is summed up by a note on his fridge door — ‘ Ask nothing , expect nothing and accept everything ’ . |
| 32 | My curiosity had ceased , swallowed up by a kind of dreamy awe which from that day increased in me very greatly . |
| 33 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 36 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 37 | Modelled on claret and made from Cabernet Sauvignon with Syrah and Cinsault thrown in , there 's a ripe fruitiness to this well-balanced wine , pepped up by a shake of spice . |
| 38 | The sponsors are offering 4–7 about Granville Again , with Morley Street , sharpened up by a win on the Flat at Doncaster , available at 5–4 . |
| 39 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 40 | In Latin America , the Second Vatican Council was followed up by a meeting of bishops from all over the continent in Medellin , Colombia . |
| 41 | And one interesting thing is that as we integrate that system as we double the number of users our requirements the loading on our system may go up by a factor of four . |
| 42 | Buoyed up by a wave of patriotic outrage rooted in the well-established propensity of liberal England to display shame at the actions of its Governments , the left was quick to seize the opportunities presented by Munich . |
| 43 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 44 | Noreen bowed her head blushing in shame and was about to walk off when the song was taken up by a voice in the wings and out stepped Maria in her best dress to finish the song , ‘ To reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh ’ . |
| 45 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 46 | The current status of computers and microcomputers in R&D , and the probable course of development in their use , is a more useful area of study and has been taken up by a group at Manchester Business School , UK ( Morse , 1984 ) . |
| 47 | His demands were taken up by a group of academics and intellectuals who also accused Milosevic of seeking to provoke intercommunal strife and to destabilize the Yugoslav federation . |
| 48 | Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin — ah yes , but one with a broken string . |
| 49 | In the early 1970s research into substitute care revealed lack of attention to planning and continuity , resulting in ‘ children who wait ’ ( Rowe and Lambert , 1973 ) ; these criticisms were taken up by a number of organizations . |
| 50 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 51 | About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school . |
| 52 | A PATIENT waiting for a heart-lung transplant was beaten up by a gang outside a Chinese takeaway . |
| 53 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 54 | My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission . |
| 55 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 56 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 57 | But a personal reassurance from me will not be acceptable unless it 's backed up by a member of the Swift family . ’ |
| 58 | It will have to be backed up by a degree of practical knowledge and competence . |
| 59 | Lill on ASV on the other hand interprets this as a clearly defined slower central section which , to my ears at least , makes a great deal more musical sense — this is backed up by a comparison of the overall timings ; Gavrilov knocks a whole minute off Lill 's 7′53″ , which is quite a lot considering the brevity of this sonata . |
| 60 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |