Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 2 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 3 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 4 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |
| 5 | The new pressures that the situation will place on libraries has already been recognised by the Higher Education Funding Council , which has set up a review committee on libraries . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 7 | NCIS , which has drawn up a target list of 500 top-level criminals , co-ordinates intelligence on a regional , national and international basis . |
| 8 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 9 | The noise echoed over the water which seemed to suck up the sound . |
| 10 | Francis and Richard tend to play slightly ahead of the beat , and although it 's more than likely psychological I always felt that playing fingerstyle meant a sort of delay between playing something and hearing it , which seemed to mess up the impact of the songs . |
| 11 | In his programme article for that Leicester v England match , Tony Russ of Leicester predicted that the new law , which intends to free up the game and lessen the effect of kicking , would have the opposite effect . |
| 12 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 13 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 14 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |
| 15 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 16 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 17 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 18 | Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification . |
| 19 | Breton and Wintrobe object to the assumption that the factors which go to make up the bureaucrat 's utility function — salary , ‘ perks ’ , and so on — are necessarily a positive monotonic function of the total budget . |
| 20 | It does not have to re-analyse characters once they have been identified , which helps to speed up the processing of long documents . |
| 21 | But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions . |
| 22 | This committee , made up of government representatives , was sometimes grandiosely referred to as the ‘ Spaak II Committee ’ ( after the body which had drawn up the Rome Treaties in the 1950s ) . |
| 23 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 24 | However , the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , asserted that " important progress " had been made , which had opened up the prospect of a comprehensive agreement on human rights . |
| 25 | The fare was 10/ — ( 50p ) , and then there was lunch , often taken at one of the new mass-market eating-places , such as the Quality Inns , which had sprung up no doubt to satisfy the American G.I.s ' taste in food : ‘ Aunt Mary 's Home-made Apple Pie ’ was constantly on the menu . |
| 26 | Joaquín Villalobos , 41 , a senior FMLN commander , made an historic appearance on June 17 before the US House of Representatives commission on hemispheric affairs to help explain the obstacles which had held up the peace process . |
| 27 | Localisation of protein alone may identify not only producing cells , but also target cells and cells which have taken up the protein by endocytosis . |
| 28 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |