Example sentences of "which [verb] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise echoed over the water which seemed to suck up the sound . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 5 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It does not have to re-analyse characters once they have been identified , which helps to speed up the processing of long documents . |