Example sentences of "up by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 2 | This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron . |
| 3 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 4 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 5 | The actual payment or receipt of the option premium is effected when the position is closed , at the rate prevailing at that time , with the difference between that and the option price at the outset having been made up by payments of variation margin . |
| 6 | It seemed so awful to me there , shabby in a cold and desolate way and so dusty and all of the sofa taken up by stacks of cushions arranged like books on a bookshelf . |
| 7 | That spirit persists , particularly in Oxford ; witness John Bayley : ‘ Most of the theories Eagleton expounds may soon seem outlandish curiosities , cooked up by teachers of literature who need to feel professional , in the sense that philosophers or scientists do , or powerful , like politicians . ’ |
| 8 | And with this would come a second liberation for women , the freedom to transcend the roles set up by figures like Annie Lennox and Janet Jackson , and to recover the right not to be strong , independent , immaculately in control . |
| 9 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 10 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 11 | This was backed up by articles in magazines and newspapers showing the housewife how to preserve fruit , salt beans , make pickles , chutneys , vinegars and sauces . |
| 12 | Housing associations are non-statutory organisations set up by groups of individuals . |
| 13 | Founded in 1972 , the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is a voluntary organisation set up by relatives of people with schizophrenia and allied disorders . |
| 14 | In each case an interview with an establishment manager responsible for personnel and industrial relations will be sought , to be followed up by interviews with managers at one or more higher levels in the enterprise identified as being important in terms of personnel and industrial relations by the establishment respondent . |
| 15 | The projected budget deficit of Epounds 6,900 million ( approximately 8 per cent of gross domestic product-GDP ) would be partially made up by savings of Epounds 6,200 million , leaving a net deficit of Epounds 660 million . |
| 16 | The weekly demonstration in Leipzig by 50,000 people is not broken up by troops despite police violence in Berlin the previous day [ ibid . ] . |
| 17 | Life was a game like tennis , set up by men for men to win with powerful serves she would never be able to return . |
| 18 | A large white bed dominated the room , and within it lay a porcelain-pale figure , propped up by banks of pillows , its shadowy eyes wide open . |
| 19 | In this case the Orc general might choose Night Goblin units with fanatics , backed up by units of Orcs to provide some backbone and either doom divers or flying monsters to take out cannons from the air . |
| 20 | Hammicks , with 30 shops , was 6% up in turnover and 4% up by units in December ; Sue Baker said the group was ‘ very pleased with Christmas ’ . |
| 21 | That is something to do with Traidcraft that they erm they quite often work with groups who have been set up by carriages from Europe . |
| 22 | Recently dug up by archaeologists on Merseyside were a group of statues named the Terry Darracotta Army . ’ |
| 23 | FOUR hours before the polls opened this week in Cambodia , the air was filled with the sound of dull explosions and the night sky was lit up by flashes of light . |
| 24 | Wright 's sting was picked up by officials at Equity & Law when they noticed a sudden change in his lifestyle . |
| 25 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 26 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 27 | ‘ Oppression , oppression , oppression , ’ grumbled a veiled and outspoken woman named Fatiya Abdel-Aziz , whose brother Ibrahim was swept up by police in February in the slum of Dar es-Salaam and has not been heard from since . |
| 28 | An incident room 's been set up by police in Aylesbury . |
| 29 | Despite its elegance , the collection managed to depict an image of women so passive that the designs would probably have been snapped up by Qantas as uniforms for its air hostesses in late 1972 . |
| 30 | One involved a man called Raymond Fryer , whose name was shown up by tests on notes of an interview between a detective and Jones . |