Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month .
2 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 .
3 " The Meeting Considering the great Exertions of the Legislature in Surpressing the Distilling of Spirits & the great revenue given up by Ministry for the purpose of providing a sufficiency of Grain for the use of the nation , which in many parts is threaten 'd with a Famine , and Considering that great Exertions have already been made in surpressing the Distilling in this Island , This Meeting unanimously Resolve Individually and Collectively to exert themselves in putting a total stop to the said Illegal Practices … "
4 He found no difficulty in signing the engagement drawn up by Parliament which bound him to be faithful to a commonwealth without king and House of Lords .
5 MORE than 300 Timex workers in Dundee will today receive letters of dismissal after overwhelmingly rejecting a deal drawn up by management , but union leaders said staff would not be terrorised into ending their strike .
6 Meciar 's government had rejected an economic programme drawn up by Deputy Premier Jozef Kucerak which followed the reform strategy of the federal government , creating fears among Meciar 's critics that Slovakia 's economy would lag behind that of the Czech Lands .
7 RESCUERS knocked a hole in the wall to reach a sleeping priest bricked up by jokers in his church near Verona , Italy .
8 The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews .
9 Mr Summerchild , it was pointed out , was employed in the Government Commission , the department set up by Harold Wilson in 1965 to coordinate the workings of the various ministries .
10 August 1986 , Labour councillor Pandura Perera cites SMG as example of political cell set up by GLC ostensibly as community group …
11 In South Ward my vote went up by 35% , more that the percentage increase of any of the other contenders and that was in spite of a pre-run of general election tactics by Labour .
12 Gazzer , his mind seized up by terror , turned to see a knife in Simon 's right hand .
13 A challenge from Engineering Director Jim Grant to Martin Melling , his opposite number in GEC/Alsthom , resulted in the loss to Scottish Nuclear of a sporting trophy put up by GEC .
14 A principle source of the new enthusiasm was a problem raised directly by the EDC concept itself , a dilemma summed up by Konrad Adenauer on his first visit to the United States in April 1953 , when he said in New York that a European army without a correspondingly unified European foreign policy would be rather illogical .
15 We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done .
16 The national executive had received the text of a 10-point proposal drawn up by Nelson Mandela , he said .
17 The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons .
18 Opposition groups criticized as inadequate a preliminary draft of a new constitution presented on April 4 by the constitutional committee set up by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon in January [ see p. 38711 ] ; the proposal retained a strong executive presidency .
19 Mexico City 's long-running air pollution problems [ see ED 53/54 and passim ] are to be addressed by a special committee set up by President Carlos Salinas .
20 An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle .
21 Novell has now ratified the certification of Russia 's newest NetWare engineers following the Moscow training session set up by Drake Training & Technologies .
22 Perhaps , he thought to himself , this was all part of a plot worked up by Dr Ali .
23 His Pacelli grandfather had served Pius IX in the administration of the papal states : his father Filippo was a lawyer practising in the papal courts — he became an adviser to the commission for the codification of canon law set up by Pius X in 1904 .
24 ‘ Jessica , I 've heard all this stuff before , it 's nonsense , honestly , romantic bilge dreamed up by journalists , mainly .
25 While the main pressure for a common framework for the curriculum emerged from the lead given by DES and HMI , it has also been an issue taken up by academics and some local authorities .
26 This is the issue taken up by Benveniste in Chapter 11 .
27 what better way to sell yourself than come up with a contentious issue backed up by evidence that you
28 If the teachers have joined the course of their own volition and their tutor is as impartial as is possible , with no power over their career or future prospects , then the contract drawn up by Kate Kennett is very thorough .
29 Earlier in the day the House had rejected the budget drawn up by President George Bush by 335 votes to 89 , with 74 Republicans joining the Democratic majority in opposition to the proposal .
30 When will the Secretary of State accept responsibility for the crisis in education provision in Cambridgeshire , or does he believe that it is just another scare got up by pupils , parents , teachers and Conservative county councillors in that county ?
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