Example sentences of "up by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 2 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 3 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 4 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 5 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 6 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 7 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 8 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 9 | The theme music is faded up by the Grams Operator , and then faded down again after the final credit has been captured on tape . |
| 10 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 11 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 12 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 13 | Chichester , Burpham ( covering the Arun valley but replaced by Arundel after the Conquest ) , Lewes and Hastings were backed up by the ports at Bosham and Pevensey and the episcopal centre at Selsey . |
| 14 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 15 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |
| 16 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 17 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 18 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 19 | That was just bullshit made up by the producers . |
| 20 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 21 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 22 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 23 | If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 24 | by anything falling from vehicles or anything thrown up by the wheels of a vehicle ; except as provided in Clause ( 2 ) each party shall bear its own loss ( if any ) in respect of such damage irrespective of legal liability . |
| 25 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 26 | The system is backed up by the Employers ' Liability ( Compulsory Insurance ) Act 1969 which makes it compulsory for employers to have insurance for personal injury to their employees . |
| 27 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 28 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 29 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 30 | Anyone partaking in the dungaree revival outside the privacy of their own bedroom should be strung up by the braces and hooked on a lamp-post for the crows to peck at |