Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elaborate network of " sympathizing mass organizations " built up through the Comintern by Willi Muenzenberg was not only maintained but rapidly expanded . |
| 2 | I crossed behind her , and seized a pair of steps , used to reach the higher shelves ; I dragged the steps to the middle of the room , climbed them , swung myself up through the skylight by which the monster had entered . |
| 3 | ‘ We had to remove one set which was already up for a production by the church 's own drama group . |
| 4 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 5 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 6 | If the person makes up for the deficit by eating extra nutritious food , then he or she might have an adequate amount of nutrients , but the high overall food and calorie intake will lead to obesity . |
| 7 | Hoggett 's analysis concerns itself principally with the opportunities opened up for the left by these changes , with more direct contact between service providers and consumers through neighbourhood offices . |
| 8 | To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance . |
| 9 | He tried to toughen Charles up as a child by sending him to Gordonstoun public school in Scotland , where the prince became a target for bullies . |
| 10 | Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game , but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end . |
| 11 | " how terribly the work of the Sixth Form is cut up during the year by the three mornings and one afternoon per week that our boys spend in attending Dr. Roscoe 's Chymistry , [ sic ] classes in Manchester . " |
| 12 | Fletcher also indicated that England 's batting line-up might be shaken up after the humiliation by India . |
| 13 | As she ate she cast worried glances up towards the cupboard by the stove , where lay a small sack of potato crisps , some Liquorice Allsorts and two packets of biscuits . |
| 14 | Recent poaching incidents have led to stepping up of bailiff patrols and the setting up of a hotline by the River Annan 's Salmon Fishery Board . |
| 15 | To be herself ; not to be swelled up like a frog by an unwanted baby . |
| 16 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 17 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 18 | Yelling a warning , which would have been far too late anyway , she watched in astonishment as Leo pivoted on one foot , and with a movement too fast for her to follow pinned Ryan up against the wall by his throat . |
| 19 | ‘ Everybody here has studied U2 's success and come up with a step by step guide of how to make it in the music business . |
| 20 | Definitions of pollution are bound up with the process by which pollution is formally brought to light and identified . |
| 21 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 22 | The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix . |
| 23 | The boys lined up in the corridor by the glass office and looked in to see who was up against the rod . |
| 24 | A widow , now in her eighties , her husband was brought up in the house by his grandparents . |
| 25 | The figure curled up in the chair by the fire , stirred and yawned toothlessly . |
| 26 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 27 | Soon the family get unwittingly caught up in an attempt by an extreme IRA faction to blow up a limousine carrying one of the Royal family . |
| 28 | More generally , water will show up from a distance by catching and reflecting light from the sky . |
| 29 | Oh they came up with their servants all servants up from the south by train to Inverness and then a charabanc or vehicle of such that was in it then because it was only metal roads we had then . |
| 30 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |