Example sentences of "which [vb base] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are recordings which back up such an assessment — principally the comparative versions listed above . |
| 2 | For the rest , there is fish ; the waters around Aegina yield lots of tasty varieties , which make up income-earner number three . |
| 3 | The reefs , which make up two thirds of those in the world , risk becomming underwater deserts . |
| 4 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 5 | The accident provoked protests from Japan 's vocal anti-nuclear community , which called for the reactor to be shut down , together with other old pressurized water reactors , which make up 17 of Japan 's total of 40 nuclear plants . |
| 6 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |
| 7 | The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent . |
| 8 | The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people . |
| 9 | Prices vary as follows on the items shown — Elkhorn Coral £19.99 ; Lettuce Coral £18.20 ; Flower Coral £31.99 ; Cup Coral large £9.25 ; Cup Coral small £5.60 ; and Blue Tube Sponge £13.36 ( which make up one of the special deals ) and a giant Elkhorn Coral which retails at £41.50 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it is Mansell 's unexpected prowess on the oval circuits , which make up six of the 16 races in the Indycar championship , which has been most impressive . |
| 12 | Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On white sands in Cameroun , where tannin levels are much higher , black colobus monkeys avoid all canopy trees and feed selectively on gap species and , unlike other colobines on other soils , have to feed on seeds , which make up half their diet . |
| 15 | Labour believes a crackdown on youth crime , particularly burglary and car crime — which make up more than half of reported crimes in England and Wales — would free the police to tackle more serious offences , such as violence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | the infrastructure : it determines the temperament and the ideological system of the statistical masses which make up sedentary human societies . |
| 20 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The plant was built by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD , which set up Eurochemic in 1957 . |
| 28 | Such packaging generally uses good quality materials , materials which use up valuable natural resources . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |