Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] up the [noun sg] " 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 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 3 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 4 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 8 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 9 | Rhyolites are pale grey or buff-coloured rocks with a micro-crystalline structure and a rather distinctive sugary texture or ‘ feel ’ — like obsidian , they usually have a well-developed banding running through them , which shows up the flow folds in the lava plainly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Around most of the walls are black stone excrescences which take the form of a rib-cage projecting from a central spine which grows up the north side of the room and arches up to the centre of the ceiling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This weapon is a coercive metaphor or conceptual structuring lens which carves up the world according to its needs and either conditions or eradicates colourless inhabitants by subjecting them to ‘ diagnosis ’ or excluding them from ‘ symbiosis ’ in a perpetual present . |
| 16 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 17 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 18 | Mine is one of those libraries which picks up the tab … |
| 19 | But I mean basically , that means that for the , tomorrow morning 's breakfast programme , I want a package including lots of different views , but for drive time which is five till six in the evening , I just want a straightforward , two minute head-to-head , one-to-one interview but for lunchtime which is C A T O , which is Cambridgeshire at One , which is our lunchtime programme , I 'd like you to put all the views into a script of about forty seconds , and do n't forget , for the two o'clock bulletin , which is a very short one , I 'd just like three sentences of copy which sums up the story . |
| 20 | Final sentence ( which sums up the paragraph ) : ( 4 ) In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald picks up the theme : the valley of ashes is the general locale , all the characters of the story have to pass through it . |
| 21 | At present there is also a scheme which tops up the income of small pharmacies considered to be in essential positions . |
| 22 | There have been no problems with the hydraulic tilt , which jacks up the carriage bodies as the train rounds a bend . |
| 23 | First , they invite you to show that you are familiar with the basic , raw material which makes up the subject — whether this is a work , a series of works , a literary theory , the historical context of an author or what critics have said about something . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Words , he said , are interdependent parts of the ‘ structural ’ system which makes up the language . |
| 26 | The systematic pattern of adjustments in market plans which makes up the market process arises , as we have seen , from the market participants ' discovery that their anticipations were overly optimistic or unduly pessimistic . |
| 27 | One item which makes up the package is life assurance — a benefit for which all employees over the age of 18 are eligible . |