Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 2 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 3 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 4 | Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament . |
| 5 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 6 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 7 | They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The strikes in the shipyards , which held up the construction of new warships vital for the battle of the Atlantic , would have been heartily unpopular had they been publicised , and some of the adverse publicity would have reflected upon the party . |