Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems from folklore that these involved dancing with music through the night , often on the Sabbath , and the legends about being turned to stone imply disapproval of the old pagan religion which kept up these practices . |
| 2 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 3 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 4 | The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people . |
| 5 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |
| 6 | There are recordings which back up such an assessment — principally the comparative versions listed above . |
| 7 | This is the economic force which pushes up national income . |
| 8 | Neville Blech who , with his wife Sonia , runs the Mijanou restaurant in London , tells a story which sums up this hidden facet of service . |
| 9 | There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science . |
| 10 | The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent . |
| 11 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 12 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 13 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 14 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 15 | At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks . |
| 16 | Since Count Humbert 's lands controlled all the passes in the Western Alps it was a marriage which opened up intriguing , if uncertain , prospects , and Henry was willing to pay 5000 marks in order to secure it . |
| 17 | Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship . |
| 18 | Claiming that bureaucratic costs are much lower in the regions than the smaller districts while areas of duplication or overlap are ‘ marginal , ’ they state : ‘ The notion that financial savings will accrue from structural reform which break up large regions such as Lothian and Strathclyde does not merit serious consideration . ’ |
| 19 | Another way is to give five points to the team which finishes first and ten to the team which fills up more of the bottle in a single round . |
| 20 | The great companies and other organisations which make up modern economies have considerable discretion in choosing the goals they will seek to fulfil , and even more discretion in deciding how they will fulfil them . |
| 21 | It was the sound of mud and moisture , the kind of sound which conjures up bare seashores with the tide far out and clear skies overhead . |
| 22 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 23 | The combined business held on well to market share but margins came under severe pressure following sterling 's devaluation which pushed up raw material prices . |
| 24 | There are quite a few hymns which take up this notion of Jesus bearing my sin as a substitute . |
| 25 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 26 | All air-fall pumice deposits originate in the same way — in Vesuvian or Plinian gas-blast eruptions which throw up dense clouds of ash tens of thousands of metres into the air . |
| 27 | The headteacher of a day school for maladjusted pupils asked the staff of his school to keep a diary on one day , 27 November 1985 , to try to record an impression of the activities , concerns and pressures which make up daily routine . |
| 28 | He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory . |
| 29 | Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in his report on July 3 gave a strong defence of perestroika in foreign policy which took up many of the themes featured in Gorbachev 's address . |
| 30 | Such packaging generally uses good quality materials , materials which use up valuable natural resources . |