Example sentences of "which [vb base] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close to Deneb is the little group made up of Omicron¹ ; ( 3.8 ) , Omicron² ; ( 4.0 ) and 32 , which make up a trio in the same × 12 field . |
| 2 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 6 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gennard sets out six propositions which make up the theory in its strongest version . |
| 9 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 10 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 11 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 12 | All the known particles in the universe can be divided into two groups : particles of spin 1/2 , which make up the matter in the universe , and particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 , which , we shall see , give rise to forces between the matter particles . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |
| 17 | Here instead are two famous paragraphs from Quine 's ‘ Two Dogmas of Empiricism ’ , which sum up the spirit of this fashionable alternative to Positive science : |
| 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 … |