Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 2 | He 's hauled up by the scraped elbows , |
| 3 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 4 | Their position is summed up by the Anglican theologian John Knox in his Humanity and Divinity of Christ . |
| 5 | This difference is summed up by the final sentence of the book , said by Carlson . |
| 6 | This conventional view is summed up by the dominant reactions to the 1981 Brixton disorders . |
| 7 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 8 | Now that we have the front bed working and set to knit , the yarn that is not taken into the slip needle hook no longer forms a float , but is taken up by the opposite needle and is knitted whilst the slip needle still retains its original knitted stitch . |
| 9 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |