Example sentences of "[adj] who [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a small section of the labouring poor was wholly or permanently dependent on poor relief , predominantly the old , the sick and the orphaned who made up the " impotent " as opposed to the " able-bodied " . |
| 2 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 3 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 4 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure who dreamed up this dastardly test of a young TV reporter 's courage . |
| 6 | It 's only right that Toad Of Toad Hall , together with the rest of his entourage from Wind In The Willows , should be reincarnated by the Thames in Oxfordshire : that 's where they were born , and that 's where they probably still live in the hearts and minds of all who grew up with them . |
| 7 | One of the letters , to Val Hulme of ABC , said : ‘ I have met many innocent men inside this building of darkness , many who gave up the fight a long time ago . |
| 8 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 9 | Those who cleaned up defined the audiences |
| 10 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 11 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 12 | Only the ‘ other neurotic ’ group were indistinguishable as children from those who grew up to be well ; if anything , their home lives were slightly more adequate than those of the comparison group . |
| 13 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 14 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 15 | This deals with , among other things , a pantomime put on by the Ralph Gardner High School called Thatcherella , children playing in the streets in front of a burn-out shop and around burnt-out cars , as well as those who queued up to help lessen the EC Butter mountain . |
| 16 | To the general public , understandably , it was not always clear whether the creation of a Commonwealth involved a grand gesture of renunciation on Britain 's part , or a grand gesture of affirmation on the part of those who took up the option . |
| 17 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 19 | In response to the setting up of the " constitutional " government , the Fujimori government authorized sentences of between four and seven years for dismissed public officials who refused to relinquish their posts or for those who took up office , performed duties or issued orders without due authorization . |
| 20 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 21 | Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine . |
| 22 | The decision means those who invested up to £50,000 will get 90 per cent of their money , those who put in between £50,000 and £100,000 will receive 80 per cent , and those over £100,000 will get 60 per cent . |
| 23 | The crucial difference between Mannheim and most of those who picked up his work was in an attitude towards epistemology . |
| 24 | Site services manager Jilly Cailes thanked those who turned up expecting to fill 1,000 balloons with helium , including students from Sudbury Upper School and representatives from the town 's Volunteer Centre . |
| 25 | While the attendance was significantly down those who turned up found increased entries of cattle , sheep and horses . |
| 26 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 27 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 28 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there were those who gave up work reluctantly and would have preferred to have kept on working , but for reasons of health or lack of alternative employment chose early retirement . |
| 30 | Had they failed , Martin and his men — i.e. those who dreamt up the match schedules — would have had enough egg on their faces for a thousand omelettes . |