Example sentences of "which [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 2 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |
| 6 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 7 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 8 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 9 | The aim of the second Columbus video was to address the main issues raised by staff following the video and briefings which made up the March cascade . |
| 10 | Markovic said that the country 's fortunes now rested largely on the conduct of the various republics and autonomous regions which made up the federation . |
| 11 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 12 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 13 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 14 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 15 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 16 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 17 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |
| 18 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |
| 19 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 20 | The traits which make up the individual 's personality have two main sources . |
| 21 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 22 | The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings . |
| 23 | Senior representatives of Lothian Regional Council , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited , which make up the Edinburgh Partnership , will join to explain why Edinburgh should be the location for the gallery . |
| 24 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 25 | If it is decided to drop the B74 course , we may still wish to keep details of the modules which make up the course . |
| 26 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |
| 27 | Whether they functioned as transmitters was difficult to prove : the technical problems of access to particular sites inside the skull , located in the middle of the dense networks of nerve cells and fibres which make up the brain , are still far from being completely solved . |
| 28 | The actual assessment process is modular and candidates can build up credits for the individual units [ above and below ] which make up the NVQ . |
| 29 | The Danish proposal is expected to be backed by at least 42 of the 69 countries which make up the Convention . |
| 30 | The Assistant Instructor Series is made up of courses covering the BHS stages I , II & III and PTT , which make up the BHSAI . |