Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 2 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 3 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 4 | As a result , the public , the press and MPs are often starved of the material with which to make up a counter-argument . |
| 5 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |
| 6 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 7 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 8 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 9 | Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . |
| 10 | If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway . |
| 11 | ‘ The climate makes this a good place in which to bring up a child . |