Example sentences of "up by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge was taken up by no less than 23 teams during the AKA Convention that year at Columbus , Ohio , all of them fulfilling the specification of being colourful , distinctive and exciting . |
| 2 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 3 | Mayall plays Fred , the obnoxious character summoned up by a mixed up young woman with hilarious and chaotic consequences . |
| 4 | Crisis and clarity are notebook froth whipped up by a single hidden energy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 7 | What the paper scathingly called the ‘ story of the refugees ’ had been whipped up by a ‘ noisy propaganda campaign dripping with chauvinism and nationalism ’ . |
| 8 | Guscott 's , set up by a break by Brendan Mullin , was a felicitous product of the renewal of the Lions centre pairing who did so well in Paris last week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 11 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 12 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 13 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 14 | Haslam was backed up by a four-man team of senior colleagues , all of whom were highly professional . |
| 15 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 16 | About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They contain some 6,000 troops organised into three infantry battalions , and backed up by a small Air Force with a squadron of A-37 attack planes and six Huey helicopters . |
| 19 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 20 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 21 | My curiosity had ceased , swallowed up by a kind of dreamy awe which from that day increased in me very greatly . |
| 22 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 23 | Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare … . |
| 24 | The top prices , however , were paid for two seven-month-old daughters of Rothrock Tradition Leadman , from Canadian consignors Cormdale Farms in Ontario — Allstar Leadman Marcie , out of A Valianat Mars SWD Marcie , with a projected CGI of 1071 points was snapped up by a German buyer for 7500gns , and Genesis Leadman Dora , out of Nowerland Chief Doris , with a projected CGI of 1131 points , was sold to Eire . |
| 25 | Undoubtedly an attractive package backed up by a six-year power train and bodywork warranty , two-year manufacturer 's warranty , two years RAC membership , windscreen replacement service and low-cost insurance . |
| 26 | More important , if your machine is good enough it could be taken up by a commercial firm and go into production . |
| 27 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 28 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 29 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 30 | Cheered up by a Chinese meal , I walked along Wellington Quay by the side of the River Liffey . |