Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best hoot of the lot was the gladiatorial look dreamt up for Spurs by Jimmy Jumble . |
| 2 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 3 | This is the process whereby every scrap of green land in a town is up for grabs by development . |
| 4 | Keith Wells pointed out that the title Sheffield Shares is deliberately ambiguous — it can be taken to mean Sheffield 's shares , as in ‘ shares ’ which are up for grabs by keen or greedy speculators ( my interpretation ) , but it can also mean Sheffield shares as in ‘ shares its wealth ’ — ‘ and that 's basically what we are trying to initiate here . |
| 5 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 6 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 7 | During this period , wild and woolly concepts of ‘ national grids ’ of leys were published and thick black pencil lines defaced countless maps — naive enthusiasm that is still held up for ridicule by ley sceptics . |
| 8 | APIVOTAL £21million stake in besieged merchant bank Morgan Grenfell was yesterday put up for auction by Hanson as talks which could have heralded a Morgan-BZW merger broke down . |
| 9 | Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries . |
| 10 | It 's thought the sword guard will be bought by The museum of Wales when it 's put up for auction by the Receiver of wrecks later this year . |
| 11 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 12 | On July 7 Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami survived a vote of no confidence , proposed by the opposition Labour Party , over his government 's failure to secure acceptance for Malta 's application for full European Community membership ; Malta 's application would , however , come up for review by the EC Council of Ministers before the end of the year . |
| 13 | He did not understand my right hon. Friend 's point about how the Government have stood up for consumers by introducing competition and the right kind of legislation . |
| 14 | To make up for losses by retirals , resignations and transfers some more recruits joined in the 1950s including M. Armstrong , A. Davies , A. L. Harris , M. F. Howells , F. May and D. I. Smith . |
| 15 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
| 16 | Sanders and Lloyd-Greame would at the least be held up for years by coalition , for there was no room for their promotion . |
| 17 | All these fonts are then set up for use by your word processor . |
| 18 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 19 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |
| 20 | The loss-making Observer , the world 's oldest Sunday newspaper , was put up for sale by Lonrho , its owners . |
| 21 | The highlight of this sale of French and continental furniture and tapestries is to be found among pieces put up for sale by Lord Elgin and supplied to his ancestor Thomas , the Seventh Earl , by Martin-Eloy Lignereux . |
| 22 | When half of the goods were subsequently put up for sale by auction , they realised £309 . |
| 23 | Book Bargains Ltd , the chain of 10 specialist remainder shops , has been put up for sale by its founder and managing director , Philip Weatherburn . |
| 24 | Section 57 states : ‘ In the case of a sale by auction — ; ( 1 ) Where goods are put up for sale by auction in lots , each lot is prima facie deemed to be the subject of a separate contract of sale . |
| 25 | The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million . |
| 26 | Under s57(1) , where goods are put up for sale by auction in lots , each lot is prima facie deemed to be the subject of a separate contract of sale . |
| 27 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 28 | SCOTT LITHGOW , the last major shipyard on the lower Clyde , has been put up for sale by its owners , Trafalgar House , the London-based property and engineering group . |
| 29 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 30 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |