Example sentences of "is [verb] up by [art] [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 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 3 | Their position is summed up by the Anglican theologian John Knox in his Humanity and Divinity of Christ . |
| 4 | This difference is summed up by the final sentence of the book , said by Carlson . |
| 5 | This conventional view is summed up by the dominant reactions to the 1981 Brixton disorders . |
| 6 | For its catalogue cover , Christie 's chose a painting by a Colombian , Fernando Botero , called ‘ The Dancers ’ , much of which is taken up by a corpulent woman 's behind . |
| 7 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 8 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 9 | Gramsci 's analysis is taken up by the Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno and applied particularly to the ‘ Amoral Familism ’ thesis of Banfield . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He is commonly said to be mad , and may indeed be so , but his unreasoning rage is backed up by a keen and artistic mind . |
| 12 | Mr. Denford said the survey is backed up by a sharp rise in 3i 's own buy-in activity where its market share is now around 40 percent . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | That amount is topped up by a substantial contribution from the private sector in the form of loans . |