Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 2 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 3 | Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations . |
| 4 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 5 | The Finlay Committee which followed up the Shelmerdine report was charged with looking at ways of bringing about internationalization , and how the issue should be raised with the Dominions , the USA , and the USSR . |
| 6 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 7 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |
| 8 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 9 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 10 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 11 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 12 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 13 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |
| 14 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 15 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 16 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 17 | Those centres which took up the offer helped SCOTVEC plan the deployment of its resources more effectively , while at the same time benefiting from earlier candidate certification . |
| 18 | Incest was another area which pointed up the growing convergence of opinion between purists , women 's groups , the police and the Home Office . |
| 19 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 20 | Markovic said that the country 's fortunes now rested largely on the conduct of the various republics and autonomous regions which made up the federation . |
| 21 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 22 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 23 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 24 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was this group of active questioners which made up the hard core of the evangelists who spread the new Christian teachings or ‘ Gospel ’ to many parts of the northern hemisphere . |
| 27 | Both were compatible with the republican-radical ideals which made up the official ideology of the Third Republic and which in 1880 meant in the main a deep distrust of Russia , the oppressor of the Poles . |
| 28 | The news , which will allow Pittencrieff to concentrate on growing its oil and gas interests , excited the City which marked up the shares 28p higher at 351p . |
| 29 | But Paul Simons , boss of the ad agency which dreamed up the campaign , insisted : ‘ The song can have either three or four goolies . ’ |
| 30 | Ruth stood before the screened fireplace in her duchess gown , drinking her tea , the focus for all the eyes which constantly rose and came to her , and the old smiles which lifted up the lips over the discoloured , sharp old teeth . |