Example sentences of "which [vb -s] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i |
| 2 | Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation . |
| 3 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 4 | One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores . |
| 5 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 6 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 7 | The 70° line which divides up the holding area is best remembered as leaning towards the far end of the outbound leg of the pattern . |
| 8 | It looks dewy fresh , but it does have overtones of a quieter age , and it 's the perfect foil for the earthy tones of the fabric which picks up the exotic theme we used downstairs . |
| 9 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 10 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 11 | And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year . |
| 12 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 13 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 14 | Which brings up the second of those two Greek imbalances — the potentially fatal one . |
| 15 | which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience |
| 16 | The Mid-Atlantic Ridge will play an important part in our study of the nature of volcanism , and so will another , the East Pacific Rise , which runs up the eastern Pacific , and eventually intersects the North American continent in the vicinity of California . |