Example sentences of "[vb past] up by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 2 | Tasmanian conservation boned up by government |
| 3 | The personality , something built up by interaction in the world , may become rigid and show signs of extreme wear — it is like a mask which is becoming stiff and cumbersome — but the spirit is becoming freer , disengaging from the normal functions of everyday life . |
| 4 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 5 | It 's the legacy of the amazing squad built up by club owner Silvio Burlusconi , the Italian tycoon for whom money is no object . |
| 6 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 7 | They rely on an enormous amount of research capital ; that is , the expertise and knowledge built up by research workers or teams and on the body of knowledge generated by others who have undertaken previous studies . |
| 8 | Living about 12 miles from our nearest store my discount is largely , if not completely , used up by fuel costs and this is made worse by the fact that I live within two miles of two competitor stores . |
| 9 | In the National Liberal Club last night , party activists were busy savouring the mathematic soup stirred up by television exit polls as they waited for the results to roll in . |
| 10 | You came came up by train ? |
| 11 | Sister Hope told me she 'd known a couple of pneumonias opened up by mistake . ’ |
| 12 | The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads . |
| 13 | the percentage of total manufacturing output ( or total industrial output ) made up by each major sector of the industry — for example , the percentage of total output made up by food and drinks production , textiles production , electrical goods , chemicals , metals and engineering , and so on . |
| 14 | Around 50 retired employees attended the party and were treated to a three course dinner served up by committee volunteers . |
| 15 | The result of this inquiry was four possible courses which the student followed up by reference individual prospectus and discussion with her tutor . |
| 16 | North of the Border a long and fruitful association has existed between the Bank and the Scottish chamber Orchestra , the latest joint venture being a series of School Workshops followed up by Family concerts within the relative areas . |
| 17 | The analysis from E G get the card attached to your work card inscribe the basic information , followed up by research carried out in the resource centre . |
| 18 | It will be necessary to confirm ( initially by phone , followed up by letter ) with each venue that the documents can be lodged there , during the relevant period , and that they will be prepared to oversee members of the public viewing documents . |
| 19 | Jolly poster of skiing in the Alps stuck up by Mum as a bribe : ‘ Ten days in Austria if you get Grade As , Bina ! ’ |
| 20 | Less money swallowed up by commission |
| 21 | The Vision of Elena Silves , despite its rather cautious prose style , is in the end a quite moving story of individuals swallowed up by dogma 's greedy maw . |
| 22 | For La rue du Couronnement — Coronation Street to you , chuck — is just a cunning scheme dreamed up by school bosses . |
| 23 | At one point , the original river bank , shored up by wire and stone , remained the only still point , actually down the centre of the fast-moving Trannon , so that it was a job to guess whether the buckling gabions had belonged originally to the left or to the right . |
| 24 | Gazzer , his mind seized up by terror , turned to see a knife in Simon 's right hand . |
| 25 | The balloons were printed with the new trust slogan of The Trust is Yours , The Caring Ours , thought up by health care support worker Margaret Grant . |
| 26 | I 'll never forget seeing a giant handing basket in a west-facing window , groaning under the weight of a huge Tsusing holly fern , its frothy fronds lit up by evening sun . |
| 27 | In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF . |
| 28 | Pace seemed to have slowed up ; people did not walk but drifted ; sound was muted , mopped up by space and carpeting . |
| 29 | That leaves £17 for food and the rest of life topped up by Family Income Supplement . |
| 30 | I guess that 's fairly unusual , because travel agents in the past have n't spent money saying you can book a holiday at your travel agent , but erm we 've had a pretty high spend and backed up by window point of serve , so we have messages in our shop windows that you can buy a British holiday at Lunn Poly . |