Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 19-year-old girl was injured by the stolen car which hurtled up an alley and rebounded off a wall before hitting her and another wall . |
| 2 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |
| 3 | And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock . |
| 4 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 5 | In the corner of the church was a visiting group of Guides whose camp was nearby , and on the knees of one Guider was an infant which kept up a constant ( and unchecked by her ) chatter throughout the readings and prayers . |
| 6 | Joyce Grenfell was right , as ever , when she said there is no giving without receiving , that they are both part of the same circle which makes up a whole spiritual act . |
| 7 | It was a point which opened up a line of argument opposing the ‘ true ’ national interest of abolition to the false claims of the traders of national necessity for what they were doing . |
| 8 | Like the bomb which blew up a national airline flight last week , killing all 107 aboard , the bombing came in the shadow of a struggle between President Virgilio Barco and the lower house of congress to overturn emergency extradition procedures decreed by Mr Barco against traffickers wanted for trial in the US . |
| 9 | The main classes of vessel which made up a fleet were first-class armoured ships ( which were to hand out and absorb the punishment of a pitched battle ) , other ironclads used for cruising , coast-defence and the many functions of the old sail frigates , and the ‘ flotilla ’ of smaller ships , of which the commonest were gunboats and the newest , torpedo-boats . |
| 10 | The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book . |
| 11 | ‘ Databases using Clipper 5.0 ’ by Will Chapman illustrates how to build business databases by taking the reader on a guided tour of the code which makes up a generic multi-purpose database using the popular Clipper DBMS language . |
| 12 | Well at that particular time I was already on the council , I was doing family planning which took up an awful lot of my time . |
| 13 | A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction but remains chemically unchanged at the end of that reaction . |
| 14 | A statement which sets up a test condition which can be used to control the subsequent flow of the program . |
| 15 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 16 | What would happen if there was a revolution and the monarchy was overthrown , Parliament dissolved and all its members imprisoned , and new elections held to a Constitutional Convention which draws up a new constitution with a presidential system of government and a single chamber assembly ? |
| 17 | At the other end of the rod is a transducer which sets up a controlled vibration within the sapphire . |
| 18 | As Oliver , Davis and Bentley ( 1981 ) remind us : ‘ The ‘ suburban semi ’ is a cliché which summons up a mental picture of rows of red-roofed , roughcast pairs of houses , each with its bay windows , its porched entrance , its ‘ third bedroom ’ above ’ , ( Oliver , Davis and Bentley , 1981 , p , 11 ) , recalling images of small front gardens and bigger rear ones , side garages and garden gates . |
| 19 | Most Windows and Windows applications menus have a Help option which calls up an information screen relevant to the task in hand . |
| 20 | Similarly pupils will often remember a pictorial representation which sums up an event or development . |