Example sentences of "[vb past] up by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 2 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 3 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 4 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 5 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 6 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 7 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 8 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 9 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 10 | Collective deliberation on the basis of choices served up by the official machine go against Mrs Thatcher 's personal grain . |
| 11 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 12 | While Paris 's tenure saw events swallowed up by the huge bicentenary celebrations , West Berlin 's year stimulated an extraordinary range of artistic events , concentrated in the summer months . |
| 13 | When she reached the stable-yard , Moonbeam was saddled up and ready , tied up by the mounting block but there was no sign of Jonnie Medd , the young groom who usually accompanied her . |
| 14 | If no such election is made , the profits of the firm must be taxed as if , on the departure of the outgoing partner , the existing business had closed and a new business started up by the continuing partners . |
| 15 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 16 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 17 | The two youngsters found the going much easier this time , with the way ahead lit up by the bobbing light of their new-found ally 's powerful flashlight . |
| 18 | There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light . |
| 19 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 20 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 21 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 22 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 23 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 24 | Sir : Now that the dust kicked up by the mass raid on the Broadwater Farm estate last week has begun to settle , it is time to embark upon an assessment of its effects . |
| 25 | November 1 : Investment and Pensions Advisory Service — which received secret payments from Barlow Clowes having channelled £65million of investors ' money into the business — wound up by the High Court . |
| 26 | Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . |
| 27 | Speaking in Darlington last week he said : ‘ Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . ’ |
| 28 | Statutory provisions , backed up by the general law , provide a form of ‘ blanket regulation ’ of the insider dealing , while special self-regulatory and quasi-statutory controls , aimed specifically at insider dealing within financial conglomerates and other contexts , focus on special areas of concern . |
| 29 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 30 | The stick , in particular , backed up by the practical invisibility of the night beat , was a useful device to save on unpaid overtime . |