Example sentences of "[vb past] up by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As firemen finally brought the tanker blaze under control , the captain was asked why he tried to dock his ship in fog , rain and seas whipped up by a force nine gale . |
| 2 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 3 | The old keyboard overlay goes back on top , raised up by a plastic cowling , and you stick the whole lot together with the sticky pads . |
| 4 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 5 | A telephone call alerting them briefly to the problem followed up by a letter is usually the most effective approach . |
| 6 | My curiosity had ceased , swallowed up by a kind of dreamy awe which from that day increased in me very greatly . |
| 7 | Windsor played the long-time head of a boys ' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive . |
| 8 | Modelled on claret and made from Cabernet Sauvignon with Syrah and Cinsault thrown in , there 's a ripe fruitiness to this well-balanced wine , pepped up by a shake of spice . |
| 9 | The sponsors are offering 4–7 about Granville Again , with Morley Street , sharpened up by a win on the Flat at Doncaster , available at 5–4 . |
| 10 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 11 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 12 | At Torry Bay the main constraints — involving questions like suitability of available soil substrate , survival of reeds in a brackish environment , and conformity of results to Purification Board standards — have been tested and overcome ; the pilot is to give way this year to a full-scale artificial reed-bed of 11 acres , treating domestic waste from a population of 8,000 people , and backed up by a £500,000 grant from an EC North Sea protection programme . |
| 13 | He adjusted his blue-tinted pilot-style glasses with a hand that wore a broad gold ring backed up by a gold cufflink in the shape of a reef-knot . |
| 14 | You can benefit from expert consultations , backed up by a landscape design service . |
| 15 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 16 | Perhaps more important for our purposes is the economists ' view of law which is something quite different from that of the lawyers ' traditional idea of a command backed up by a sanction . |
| 17 | There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project . |
| 18 | Four reports were published , backed up by a series of duplicated reports which were circulated to interested parties . |
| 19 | The system will be based on a network of anti-pollution equipment in strategic locations around the globe , backed up by a training programme to ensure that governments and the various oil industries are well-equipped to cope with an accident . |
| 20 | They have a three-tiered medals system , backed up by a number of Testimonial awards . |
| 21 | Prior to the 1959 election the Tories carried out a highly expensive campaign , by previous standards , backed up by a business campaign against Labour nationalisation plans . |
| 22 | Under the single payments system grants , involving certain rights to payment backed up by a right of appeal to an independent tribunal , disbursed some £350 million in 1986/7 . |
| 23 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 24 | It was built in 1852 by J.W. Wild , who modelled it — if you please — on the tower of the town hall in Siena ; its purpose was to provide the docks with their own hydraulic power , having a huge tank of water pumped up by a steam engine . |
| 25 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 26 | His trousers , made of what looked like sacking , were chopped off at the knee , held up by a strap wound round his middle . |
| 27 | Mr French also cited Gloucester 's new courthouse , held up by a planning row between the city and county councils . |
| 28 | Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare … . |
| 29 | and then , not if you ca n't get , held up by a piece of string would it ? |