Example sentences of "which [verb] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How stable is a system which can not employ an increasing proportion of the population , which leaves half the world destitute , which rides a switchback cycle between boom and bust , which piles up tottering mountains of debt ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A sample is taken and placed on a microscope slide and stained with coloured dyes which show up different structures in varying colours and shades . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Of Akragas , which put up more temples in the fifth century than any other Mediterranean city except Athens , Diodorus says ( xi.25 ; cp. xiii – .81 ) ‘ her revenue was derived originally from the large indemnities levied against Carthage after Himera . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 10 | But he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition which threw up new ideas , some on reflection wrong or offending and to be rejected , others the seeds of devotion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Baur was the leader of the ‘ Tübingen school ’ which opened up new lines of study of the New Testament , and was the most widely influential and controversial movement in biblical criticism in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act , which set up secular courts and procedures , established no new principle not involved in the old form of divorces by petitions in Acts of Parliament . |
| 14 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 15 | A ten minute tea-break , a telephone call , a brief conversation , anything which breaks up large blocks of concentration , improves efficiency . |
| 16 | This month 's parliamentary debates follow the report of the war crimes inquiry , headed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Thomas Hetherington , which followed up 301 allegations . |
| 17 | Which opens up other areas cover . |
| 18 | For twenty-two years , Dennison was a Marxist , a militant responsible for strikes which tied up Standard Motors and which you all know about . |
| 19 | It is the VPK which draws up detailed contracts for production ministries , legally binding on all parties . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 22 | Hence , their files give little indication of misdemeanours , which take up whole pages when girls were involved . |
| 23 | A document on political work was issued which summed up new experiences gained in political work , especially after the June events , and clarified ideological issues " confounded by the ideas propounded by bourgeois liberalization " . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |