Example sentences of "up by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the institutional life does well , if backed up by economic stability or an ideological message , is produce people who cope well in situations where feelings can be a handicap to efficient functioning . |
| 2 | Article 20.1 of the Danish Constitution allows powers to be ‘ delegated to international authorities set up by mutual agreement with other states for the promotion of international rules of law and cooperation ’ . |
| 3 | When faced with the seemingly inevitable growth of military authority backed up by frenetic ultranationalism and repression of those who opposed Japanese imperialism in Asia , the Emperor system provided the core values to justify collective effort and sacrifice . |
| 4 | Answering a questionnaire drawn up by Labour MP Alun Michael , Shadow Minister for Home Affairs , Mr White confessed that there would be problems finding alternative sources of local funding . |
| 5 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 6 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 7 | A collection of vintage farm machinery built up by one man over thirty years is to be auctioned off tomorrow.The field full of equipment includes tractors shipped over from America in the nineteen forties to help the British war effort.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 8 | There 's your hundred percent it 's got to go up by one point seven to a hundred and seventeen percent . |
| 9 | The character of the Messiah is summed up by one historian of the period as : |
| 10 | She toured Britain and West Europe , she broadcast constantly — but she preferred recitals to the teamwork of symphonies , so never got taken up by one conductor , and in the long run that can be very important . |
| 11 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 12 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 13 | The winning pair , Jimmy Douglas and Jim Cunningham , beat the runners up by one shot in the final . |
| 14 | The main source for agreements was shown to be the Soviet official International Treaty series backed up by other evidence , and the figures for disbursement were compiled largely from evidence extracted from the BBC 's Summary of World Broadcasts , from documents made available to the researcher at the Friedrich Ebertstiftung Institut in Bonn and at OECD in Paris and , in a few cases , by personal visits and observation . |
| 15 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 16 | The possibilities opened up by such work are unlimited . |
| 17 | Four out of five US resellers who carry Unix software estimate their Unix sales will increase by a average of 49% for the period 1991 to 1993 and are planning to expand their wares , according to ‘ A Study Conducted Among Unix and Unix-Related Product Resellers ’ run up by New Jersey-based Ralph Head & Affiliates . |
| 18 | Three hamlets on the fringe of a fast expanding new town are fighting to avoid being swallowed up by new development . |
| 19 | On top of this is the danger that other council car parks could be swallowed up by new development . |
| 20 | Moreover , this ravaging of that part of the publicly owned stock which is most desirable and most in demand is not being made up by new building . |
| 21 | Marylebone Road was up by eight point two percent , Rock Circus attendances were up by twenty eight percent and Chessington twenty one percent . |
| 22 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 23 | The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs . |
| 24 | This means that a good proportion of the interview is taken up by passing information to the candidate . |
| 25 | The Fondation Amazonie has been set up by Belgian film maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux , formerly among the leading lights of pop singer Sting 's Rainforest Foundation . |
| 26 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
| 27 | This evidence is backed up by early cave paintings in Europe too . |
| 28 | Some of the deficit thus created was made up by external aid , largely from Eastern bloc countries , though the European Community and Scandinavian countries also provided assistance . |
| 29 | Devising programmed sequences in general proved very much trickier for the average teacher than was perhaps originally predicted , and the variations in curricula and in the subject-matter taught in different establishments revealed as over-optimistic ( certainly in the UK ) some early prophecies , which saw great blocks of time in the average school taken up by individual work with teaching programmes . |
| 30 | Brothers Jan and Roger Rowe have changed their farming policy because of TB which was , they think , brought on to the farm by badgers and then picked up by grazing dairy cows . |