Example sentences of "which [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The developing round peas produce a vital molecule , called starch-branching enzyme , which builds up complex starch molecules from sugar . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | For the rest , there is fish ; the waters around Aegina yield lots of tasty varieties , which make up income-earner number three . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A ten minute tea-break , a telephone call , a brief conversation , anything which breaks up large blocks of concentration , improves efficiency . |
| 19 | Which opens up other areas cover . |
| 20 | For twenty-two years , Dennison was a Marxist , a militant responsible for strikes which tied up Standard Motors and which you all know about . |
| 21 | It is the VPK which draws up detailed contracts for production ministries , legally binding on all parties . |
| 22 | Manufacturers and packagers have arranged to pick up transport wrappings from retailers and have set up a parallel waste-collection scheme , called the ‘ Duales System Deutscheland ’ , ( DSD ) which picks up recyclable packaging from households and returns it to the manufacturers . |
| 23 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 24 | New software modules include VXVMI , a virtual memory tool , which sets up virtual memory capabilities on target systems for run-time and debugging purposes . |
| 25 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 26 | Much of the orchestral playing was colourful and poetic , notably the horn-calls and pizzicato strings in Act II which call up nocturnal mystery and tension with such magical economy . |
| 27 | So they tended to have chronic balance of payments surpluses , which stoked up inflationary pressure by maintaining high demand for goods . |
| 28 | The vehicles that carry them back , he finds , are membrane-encased vacuoles , which take up fluorescent dextran , introduced into the cell , and convey it to the lysosomes in the cell body . |
| 29 | Hence , their files give little indication of misdemeanours , which take up whole pages when girls were involved . |
| 30 | 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 " . |