Example sentences of "up by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortfall has been made up by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum Society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron . |
| 4 | MODERN molecular biology has finally answered one of the most important questions thrown up by experiments in the last century on the nature of genetic inheritance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 7 | Unlike stage-coaches , which could be readily held up by brigands in remoter regions , railways were immune from the start — except in the American West — even in notoriously unsafe areas such as Spain and the Balkans . |
| 8 | But they were held up by complications in getting visas . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between . |
| 11 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | During 18–19 July the rebellion was taken up by garrisons on the Spanish mainland , spreading roughly northwards from Andalusia . |
| 14 | And this confidence is backed up by guarantees of up to seven years . |
| 15 | The fort became a prison and was blown up by partisans during the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Not a day goes by , Willoughby , without your coming in here asking to join some crack-brained new outfit dreamed up by cranks at the War Office . |
| 18 | THE third-biggest expenditure in America 's federal budget , behind health care and defence , is the cost of servicing the public debt run up by Americans in previous years . |
| 19 | Approximately one-third of all beds in gynaecological wards are taken up by women in the same condition . |
| 20 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 21 | The impact of de Gaulle 's words , which were transmitted to Algeria via Radio Monte Carlo and picked up by soldiers on their transistor radios , was again critical . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Shortly after the invasion United States troops , backed up by forces from various European , Arab and Asian countries , were quickly dispatched to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to shield the kingdom from Iraqi assault and to impress upon President Saddam Hussein of Iraq that he should withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 25 | The world has answered Saddam Hussein 's invasion with 12 UN resolutions … backed up by forces from 28 countries of six continents . |
| 26 | Shortly after the invasion US troops , backed up by forces from various European , Arab and Asian countries , were swiftly dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 28 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 29 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 30 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |