Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up to form [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continental rock buckles up to form a mountain range . |
| 2 | The undersides link up to form an arch while the uppersides are cut to appear as pierced circles . |
| 3 | Neurulation results in a major change in shape of part of the embryo — a flat sheet of cells on the upper surface folds up to form a tube that will develop into the brain and spinal cord . |
| 4 | In the midst of concrete towers and slabs , the office blocks and apartment buildings of the new Perugia , stood an old stone farmhouse , squat and sturdy , with its attendant chicken coops and vegetable garden , the walls dyed green by years of sulphur sprayed on the vines running up to form a pergola . |
| 5 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |