Example sentences of "up by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A typical consumer reaction is summed up by a correspondent writing earlier this year in the New Scientist concerning trends in digital car radio design : ‘ Previously it was simple , while driving to cope with two big knobs and six decent-sized push buttons to get a useful selection of stations . |
| 32 | Their brand of blues-tinged metal was eagerly lapped up by a capacity Stadium crowd for the Crowes ’ second Irish performance . |
| 33 | Some of the money was put up by a pensioner who lives in the town , but wishes to remain anonymous . |
| 34 | Some of the money was put up by a pensioner who wishes to remain anonymous . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 37 | Croatia 's June defence pact with the Bosnian government [ see p. 38971 ] was followed up by a pact , signed by the Croatian and Bosnian Presidents on July 21 , to co-ordinate military efforts against aggression . |
| 38 | Then , just as Tabitha was opening her mouth and wondering what she was supposed to say , a hideous crackling noise came over the robot 's speaker , and its picture was torn up by a burst of interference . |
| 39 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 40 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 41 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 42 | And when , within five weeks of returning from that injury , she was beaten up by a yob , she still did n't dream of quitting . |
| 43 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 44 | It has been snapped up by a consortium led by Cinven , a venture capital giant backed by the Coal Board Pension Fund . |
| 45 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 46 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 47 | And I said , and she said oh well she said you know well it 's that 's how you 've got ta take it stripped , for me to take that to get that done up by a restorer you 'd have to take all the upholstery off , or quite a bit off |
| 48 | But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ . |
| 49 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 50 | About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school . |
| 51 | A DOCTOR was beaten up by a gang as he made a midnight call to the home of a dying cancer patient . |
| 52 | A PATIENT waiting for a heart-lung transplant was beaten up by a gang outside a Chinese takeaway . |
| 53 | This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 . |
| 54 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 55 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 56 | Only the carpet of snow relieved its drabness , and that was being rolled up by a man driving a small tractor with a scoop on the front . |
| 57 | Gardeners with bad backs will be rushing to buy the Leaf-Lifter , a vacuum cleaner that sucks up autumn leaves directly into disposable bags — it has already been snapped up by a company wanting to market it . |
| 58 | You can benefit from expert consultations , backed up by a landscape design service . |
| 59 | It is interpretation carried out within an existing legal framework : where a trust has actually been set up by a settlor , and it is a matter for the jurist to interpret or elucidate details . |
| 60 | At Torry Bay the main constraints — involving questions like suitability of available soil substrate , survival of reeds in a brackish environment , and conformity of results to Purification Board standards — have been tested and overcome ; the pilot is to give way this year to a full-scale artificial reed-bed of 11 acres , treating domestic waste from a population of 8,000 people , and backed up by a £500,000 grant from an EC North Sea protection programme . |