Example sentences of "[vb pp] up by the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 2 | The food was served up by the equally cheerful owner , a middle-aged lady who did not believe in overcharging her customers . |
| 3 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | What is clear , I think , is that to refer to the whole debate as a ‘ scandal ’ is grossly to exaggerate the position , and it disregards the very great scientific problems thrown up by the apparently simple question of whether low-level lead exposure does indeed produce the alleged effects . |
| 5 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |