Example sentences of "up [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 2 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 3 | When government stock issues had been taken up predominantly by the triad , there had been little need for anything much in the way of a " market " ; but the change in the structure of debt ownership led inevitably to the emergence of broking and jobbing practices which were to become institutionalised into the Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 5 | Starting at the outskirts of Pinderfields , it 's a solid 13 miles of undulating tarmac broken up only by the grass playing fields of Pinderfields at the finish . |
| 6 | Britain 's traditional supporters fell into line , and Pleven 's blueprint was taken up only by the six states of the ECSC . |
| 7 | Unwillingly , and forced up only by the power in Minch 's voice , Creggan flew up to his normal place , nearer to the terrible open sky . |
| 8 | The existence of a meaning distinction is backed up furthermore by the opinions of a certain number of grammarians who all have more or less similar impressions as to the nature of the semantic contrast here . |
| 9 | Third , there is the issue of the party manifesto for a general election and the idea that this should no longer be drawn up just by the leader on the basis of informal consultations . |
| 10 | It was a spirit summed up not by the hoards of identically painted Clios or the new 16-valve Chamade ( both in the UK next spring ) but by Laguna , the electric-blue and polished-silver roadster show car . |
| 11 | We ended up not by the sea . |
| 12 | For one thing it seems that Ho 's reply , via Saigon , was held up deliberately by the French authorities so that it was not received in Paris until after the war had begun . |
| 13 | Referring to them as she detracts from the clarity of my work , since the reader is brought up short by the unfamiliar , inappropriate form . |
| 14 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 15 | However , senior management almost by definition is a matter of assessing and taking business risks on a daily if not hourly basis and even those momentarily brought up short by the mention of such dramatic events will rapidly discount them as extremely low in league of likely threats to be confronted . |
| 16 | As she entered the little parlour behind her , Theda was brought up short by the sight of a stranger standing before the fireplace . |
| 17 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 18 | People with learning disabilities who need residential care in Bassetlaw can go to one of four staffed homes which were set up partly by the health authority and are run by the Mencap Homes Foundation . |
| 19 | The ordinary annual grant for restoration will be used up partly by the Laboratorio del Restauro in Palazzo Barberini , which recently restored Correggio 's Borghese ‘ Danae ’ , and partly by the needs of the five other museums which the Soprintendenza is responsible for : the Gallery in Palazzo Barberini , the Spada Gallery , the Corsini Gallery , the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Borghese Gallery . |
| 20 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 21 | The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information . |
| 22 | What a pity it is that the US government negotiating teams are allowed to give the impression that progress in the world trade negotiations is being held up solely by the intransigence of European farmers . |
| 23 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 24 | The court hearing was taken up mainly by the formal reading out of the charges , and brief argument about when the trial should proceed in the Rand Supreme Court in Johannesburg . |
| 25 | A fine and storming time was had by all ( to put it mildly ) , the degenerate nature of the evening summed up perfectly by the mildly amusing spectacle of one SHAUN RYDER being carried out of the venue at the end of the night , screaming out the directions to his hotel to his sweating , grumbling slaves . |
| 26 | Good form , sportsmanship , amateurism and other long-forgotten traditions meant that success was relatively unimportant , provided one behaved properly , an attitude summed up perfectly by the poet Kipling in his poem ‘ If … ’ which still hangs , largely unread , over Wimbledon 's Centre Court . |
| 27 | And Garvey jumped down and was swallowed up immediately by the fuming mist . |
| 28 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |
| 29 | Constables have a definite view about the style of authority they prefer in officers , which is summed up well by the remark that they need to be ‘ one of the boys ’ : that is , they should not stand on ceremony and overtly assert their authority . |
| 30 | A Title : PAPER PEOPLE ’ , which survives as a phrase in Shatov 's mouth , tossed up twice by the polemical flood . |