Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [vb base] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 2 | The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg . |
| 3 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 4 | Example 18 is one of the fifteen or so melodic fragments which make up the piece : |
| 5 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 6 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 7 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | The pixels which make up an image on a digitized computer screen are like building blocks which can be coloured and combined in any way the operator 's computer , competence and ingenuity allow . |
| 9 | The suggested group contributions are shown in table 8.3 and the solubility parameter for a polymer can be estimated from the sum of the various molar attraction constants F for the groups which make up the repeat unit i.e. |
| 10 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 11 | The Danish proposal is expected to be backed by at least 42 of the 69 countries which make up the Convention . |
| 12 | To understand the nature of state power , it is necessary first of all to distinguish , and then to relate , the various elements which make up the state system . |
| 13 | Of the three elements which make up an opera — the music , the words and the drama — the third arises from the first two realised by the performance of the singing actors , with the collaboration of the musicians and within the ambience of the set and the costumes . |
| 14 | The testes commence production of spermatozoa ( sperm ) and Various other organs begin to produce the fluids which make up the semen , which will carry the sperm from the testes to the urethral opening through which they are discharged during ejaculation ; this is a continuous process and millions of spermatozoa are produced . |
| 15 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 16 | It is as though Crabbe 's personal inspiration , which surrounds Grimes with a visionary nimbus , becomes one part of the opera , and the whole series of poems which make up The Borough become the rest of the opera . |
| 17 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 18 | Eight matches gone … won 3 lost five … four matches to go … 2 at home … 2 away … 2 wins needed to avoid relegation … they ’ re the facts and figures which sum up the season for the Cherry and Whites … |
| 19 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 20 | It also houses a collection of old aeroplanes which make up the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Museum ; which includes among its exhibits a Lancaster bomber , two Hurricanes and four Spitfires . |
| 21 | This instinct — along with all the other instinctive and subtle inward facets which make up the creature — then acts as the blueprint for the actual patterning , formation or projection of the physical sense organ and body itself . |
| 22 | But there is no clear logic to the complex pattern of cell divisions which divide up the egg and generate the worm . |
| 23 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 24 | The islands which make up the East Indies archipelago form a region of fascinating complexity . |
| 25 | Whether they functioned as transmitters was difficult to prove : the technical problems of access to particular sites inside the skull , located in the middle of the dense networks of nerve cells and fibres which make up the brain , are still far from being completely solved . |
| 26 | ‘ The recording is of a large group of females which meet up every day to socialise , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Gennard sets out six propositions which make up the theory in its strongest version . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |
| 29 | the various formats which make up a style sheet- paragraph settings , margins and columns , page layouts , hyphernation and justification , widow and orphan control and automatic section numbering . |
| 30 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |