Example sentences of "which [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Consort Hotels decided to drop activity breaks , which made up a tiny part of its market , and rebranded the product as Consort Freedom Breaks , with improved rail-inclusive packages covered by a Trust account . |
3 | Rate support and local authority influence was expected to improve the often low standards of denominational schools , which made up a high proportion of existing elementary schools . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They passed Scotland Yard ; Westminster Abbey came into sight ; the tower of St Margaret 's and the roofs , turrets and gables , shop-dwellings , houses and taverns , which made up the small city of Westminster . |
6 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | An official of the Association of British Insurers , which drew up the new insurance ratings , conceded that the structure , which is due to be introduced on July 1 , is being revised ‘ almost daily . ’ |
11 | He had contributed time and money freely to causes in which he believed , and his energy was a vital factor in the completion of the Trent and Mersey canal , which opened up the continental trade and reduced transport costs through its connection with Hull and Liverpool . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
14 | Again un-named as yet , it has a provisional grading of E8 6c , and supersedes a pitch climbed by Grant Farquhar a few weeks previously , which finished up the top section of Lord of the Flies . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The opening was from a book called Joyce , By Her Friends , and was a piece written by Verily Anderson which conjured up an imaginary car ride with Joyce : ‘ Turn left any minute now and then sharp right and straight under a low lying archway with a very steep mews . |
20 | The council houses followed the curve of the road , which wound up a slight incline . |
21 | Incest was another area which pointed up the growing convergence of opinion between purists , women 's groups , the police and the Home Office . |
22 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |