Example sentences of "up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London we have a team of 4 specialist nurses backed up by 2 doctors . |
| 2 | From a handful of POCs in the early Sixties , the number of cases taken up by Amnesty now stands at 42,000 of which 38,000 are now closed . |
| 3 | This distinction can be backed up by philosophy and aesthetics , and descriptions can be found of the resultant moments of vision or epiphanies . |
| 4 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 5 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 6 | Apart from small orders , usually of nuns , set up by local bishops for local needs , religious orders have always had considerable independence from the bishops . |
| 7 | The writings of Leo XIII ( 1878–1903 ) , on which those of Pius XI ( 1922–39 ) were frequently constructed , are remarkable expressions of a papacy dragging itself up by its bootstraps from centuries of neglect in the field of social , economic , and political issues . |
| 8 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 9 | ‘ The transformation of the British pub currently underway has not occurred because of some conscious desertion of its doors by the public , but it is the result of some very careful planning by groups of retailers , marketing managers and accountants ( back up by designers ) encamped in the higher echelons of the brewing trade . |
| 10 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 11 | I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’ |
| 12 | They were pulled up by the bell . |
| 13 | Mayall plays Fred , the obnoxious character summoned up by a mixed up young woman with hilarious and chaotic consequences . |
| 14 | The Boxes were snapped up by Gainsborough Studios after winning a joint screenwriting Oscar for ‘ THE SECOND VEIL ’ . |
| 15 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 16 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 17 | The time taken up by pauses is not counted in bout time . |
| 18 | The only solution to the ‘ opponent block ’ is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps so that you come to believe that you can win . |
| 19 | The opponent may be setting you up by turning his leading foot inwards . |
| 20 | He picked it up by one long back leg . |
| 21 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 22 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |
| 23 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 24 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 25 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 26 | Despite the humour , which was lapped up by an appreciative crowd , it was a sad spectacle and one that must have left her regretting her comments , when asked about her chances at Wimbledon . |
| 27 | So successful was the Class 59 , perhaps embarrassingly so from the viewpoint of British manufacturers , that the initial order for four machines was followed up by orders for five more , comprising one for additional Foster Yeoman traffic and four for the neighbouring but rival firm ARC . |
| 28 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 29 | This type of choreography was taken up by later music-hall acts whose very eccentric soft shoe , sand dances before a background of pyramids and palm trees aroused much laughter . |
| 30 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |