Example sentences of "which [verb] up to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 2 | There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch . |
| 3 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 4 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 6 | The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 7 | This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation . |
| 8 | All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum . |
| 9 | The weather was perfect , the room inviting and comfortable which added up to a happy atmosphere . |
| 10 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 11 | And furthermore , do n't bother with guidebook descriptions or the like , just find the crag and climb the rock , dappled with lichen , tinged with red and bristle-tufted with pink-and-dark-green heather , which soars up to a narrow apex . |
| 12 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 13 | These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making . |
| 14 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 15 | Around the walls were shelves which stretched up to the blackened ceiling , bearing more rolls of vellum . |