Example sentences of "which [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 2 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 3 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 4 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 5 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 6 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 7 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 8 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 9 | It also remains stable when cooked , which opens up the possibility of combining it with Ruby and other new products in the Staley portfolio to create diet markets in areas aspartame is unable to enter — jam , baked beans , canned fruit and vegetables , soft drinks concentrates , desserts and cakes . |
| 10 | In the Nineties we are rediscovering a way of living and dressing which picks up the threads of that decade and updates it . ’ |
| 11 | There is chemical pollution discharged into rivers from factories and chemical plants , which clogs up the rivers with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas . |
| 12 | At present there is also a scheme which tops up the income of small pharmacies considered to be in essential positions . |
| 13 | It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us . |