Example sentences of "[vb past] up by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 2 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 3 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 4 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 5 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 6 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 7 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 8 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 9 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 10 | Collective deliberation on the basis of choices served up by the official machine go against Mrs Thatcher 's personal grain . |
| 11 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 12 | When she reached the stable-yard , Moonbeam was saddled up and ready , tied up by the mounting block but there was no sign of Jonnie Medd , the young groom who usually accompanied her . |
| 13 | If no such election is made , the profits of the firm must be taxed as if , on the departure of the outgoing partner , the existing business had closed and a new business started up by the continuing partners . |
| 14 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 15 | The two youngsters found the going much easier this time , with the way ahead lit up by the bobbing light of their new-found ally 's powerful flashlight . |
| 16 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 17 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 18 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 19 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 20 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 21 | Sir : Now that the dust kicked up by the mass raid on the Broadwater Farm estate last week has begun to settle , it is time to embark upon an assessment of its effects . |
| 22 | November 1 : Investment and Pensions Advisory Service — which received secret payments from Barlow Clowes having channelled £65million of investors ' money into the business — wound up by the High Court . |
| 23 | Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . |
| 24 | Speaking in Darlington last week he said : ‘ Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . ’ |
| 25 | Statutory provisions , backed up by the general law , provide a form of ‘ blanket regulation ’ of the insider dealing , while special self-regulatory and quasi-statutory controls , aimed specifically at insider dealing within financial conglomerates and other contexts , focus on special areas of concern . |
| 26 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 27 | The stick , in particular , backed up by the practical invisibility of the night beat , was a useful device to save on unpaid overtime . |
| 28 | The SSL holds a core collection of material covering scientific and technical aspects backed up by the National Library 's other relevant collections such as official publications , legislation , and popular science items . |
| 29 | The passports were rushed to Newcastle airport , flown on a British Airways flight to Heathrow , picked up by the Metropolitan Police and taken to Gatwick . |