Example sentences of "which [vb past] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 2 | They predicted that , without urgent action by Western governments and aid agencies , there would be a repetition of the famine of 1982-5 which claimed up to 1,000,000 victims [ see pp. 32239-40 ; 33017 ; 33382-84 ; 34471-72 ] . |
| 3 | Shell UK was ordered on Feb. 23 , 1990 to pay a fine of £1,000,000 for polluting the Mersey river estuary on Aug. 19 , 1989 , when 156 tonnes of crude oil had escaped through a fractured underground pipeline causing a 10-mile oil slick which killed up to 300 seabirds and affected some 2,000 others . |
| 4 | Zemstvos and city dumas co-opted new members in preparation for democratic elections and meanwhile had to contend with ‘ Committees of Public Organizations ’ which sprang up in most localities . |
| 5 | The bottles you buy today contain rain water which fell up to 80 years ago . |
| 6 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 7 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 8 | The plan involved the replacement of the current 130 constituencies ( each of which had up to six seats ) with some 300 single-member constituencies , with the remaining 200 seats distributed on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 9 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |