Example sentences of "which [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 2 | Mark said that when the Raja saw the damage he was wearing glasses ‘ which steamed up a bit . ’ |
| 3 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 7 | The aim of the second Columbus video was to address the main issues raised by staff following the video and briefings which made up the March cascade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 12 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 17 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The bid to revitalise the town was launched yesterday at Stockton Town Hall by John Sefton , chairman of Stockton Central Area Development Agency , which drew up the document . |
| 20 | A special working party , which drew up the proposals , wrote to Housing Minister Sir George Young : ‘ Around us , Wirral is being improved dramatically under the City Challenge and Merseyside Development Corporation 's programmes but we are the forgotten people . ’ |
| 21 | The eels were making such a noise that all the other fishes started making a noise as well , which woke up the Loch Ness Monster ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , breaking apart like a toppling chimneystack , its body collapsed and felled another , which threw up an arm as it went down , as if thinking to save itself by grabbing hold of one of its remaining upright companions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |