Example sentences of "[vb past] up by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances of Doe 's capture and his killing drained much of the credibility built up by the ECOMOG forces , then under the command of Lt.-Gen. |
| 2 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 3 | This action is commonly attributed to the fear of the working class stirred up by the course of events in France . |
| 4 | The indignation stirred up by the gutter press in Nuremberg focuses on Dr Fohrbeck 's religious convictions . |
| 5 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 6 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 7 | Getting trained people to remote villages to administer the drug every year — often along tracks churned up by the rain — will be a formidable task . |
| 8 | The new frontiers opened up by the development of the sciences through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken them far beyond the model of the machine and revealed a far greater degree of randomness and unpredictability in the fundamental structure of the universe . |
| 9 | In these early years , equations similar to the Lorenz system ( Chapter 6 ) { 35 } were written down , both for lasers and masers , but failure to find a practical system in either spectral region which was adequately described by these equations , plus of course the abundance of other avenues opened up by the development of lasers , led to a rather quiescent phase lasting till the resurgence of interest in the late 197Os . |
| 10 | Within such an institutional arrangement there is , by implication , little room for alternative practices , including those possibilities opened up by the women 's and gay liberation movements of the period , and it is such an arrangement that constituted , for Gummer , the previously existing moral consensus . |
| 11 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 12 | Life on their farms was distinctly less attractive to the peasantry than conditions on monastic and boyar estates , let alone in the new territory opened up by the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan . |
| 13 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 14 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 15 | They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau . |
| 16 | To their shame , many tourists fired up by the prospect of making a fast rupee , dirham or peso are prepared to haggle for everything , ranging from the price of a cup of tea to an airline ticket . |
| 17 | The rain , whipped up by the wind , bit into her face , stung the softly tanned skin on her neck and then trickled down the inside of her blouse , to merge with the hundred other rivulets of water that soaked into her skin . |
| 18 | That was just bullshit made up by the producers . |
| 19 | But following your argument that would indicate that the image we have now is a concocted one made up by the press to a large extent . |
| 20 | To a large extent I think it is , Bill , but then I think our image of most politicians is a concocted one , made up by the press . |
| 21 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 22 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 23 | In 2015 the Treaty of Atlantic and Pacific Investment Regions ( TAPIR ) , cooked up by the EC 's crafty Turkish president , duly brought the dollar and the yen into the ecu , and thus , automatically , the shekel and the tael of the Chinese Imperial Republic . |
| 24 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 25 | They took the road past Mr Zamoyski 's shop and pulled up by the bowling green . |
| 26 | Then Ockleton turned off along a narrow lane and , a few moments later , they pulled up by the church . |
| 27 | His Dad pulled up by the fence and wound his window down . |
| 28 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 29 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 30 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |