Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 2 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 3 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |
| 4 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 5 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 6 | It was market day and the wide curving flight of steps leading up to the centre was lined with flimsy tables covered in kitchenware and watches and clothing and tools and toys Music blared out from a stall selling bootleg cassette tapes . |
| 7 | And did you ever hear of tensions building up amongst the men ? |
| 8 | The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April . |
| 9 | This is a lovely sheet of water amongst trees , having as a powerful background the massive build-up of ridges leading up to the summit of Mam Sodhail , a major Munro 3862 feet high . |
| 10 | Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh . |
| 11 | For many years to come there will be generations of children growing up without the chance of an education so we have yet another challenge , that of the invisible children . |
| 12 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 13 | It would involve the abandonment of rigid conceptualism : the rejection , in other words , of a formal mechanical set of criteria adding up to the concept of adultery which allows hard problems to be solved with apparent ease by simply referring to a formula without examining the deeper issues of justice involved in the case . |
| 14 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 15 | But the prosecution 's description of events leading up to the fire was appalling in its sexist implications . |
| 16 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 17 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 18 | The case of the seven bishops was an important turning point in the development of events leading up to the Revolution , marking the defeat of James 's attempts to win Nonconformist support for his policies of toleration . |
| 19 | The police have staged a reconstruction of events leading up to the murder of parttime model Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common . |
| 20 | He was one of a number of witnesses who described their view of events leading up to the crash in Swindon last year . |