Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] up to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There is a main road soon , which goes up to the pass , but it has no cover . ’
2 When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house .
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 Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ .
5 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 .
6 This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution .
7 Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated .
8 Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included .
9 These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out .
10 She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him .
14 On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly .
15 He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate .
16 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 .
17 Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society .
21 Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa .
22 The group then undertook local information meetings which built up to the campaign 's first large public meeting in Letterfrack , Co .
23 Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’
24 For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The Castle can be approached either via a narrow path leading up the mountainside which approaches the gates directly , or by a safer and wider path which leads up to the mountain peak and a pair of half-derelict mountain gates .
28 Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle .
29 This is a length of pipe , with a gentle bend in it , which leads up to the surface where it is fitted with a removable cover .
30 Also , the cassettes are cheaper than any of the other formats , blank tape being widely available in a variety of qualities which extend up to the ‘ PRO ’ grade for really important recordings .
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