Example sentences of "which [vb base] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also runs another 450 ( mostly diesels ) which pick up from home disabled or elderly people needing regular outpatient treatment . |
| 2 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 3 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 4 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 5 | This heading is quite extravagant on fabric and needs fullness of three times the track length for true box pleats which butt up against each other . |
| 6 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |
| 7 | We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry . |
| 8 | Much of the upland moors are given a scale and a softer appearance by the long fingers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stone walls which push up their valley sides . |
| 9 | Theft is covered by the treaty but other offences which crop up in the Guinness case , such as common law conspiracy to rig the market and breaches of the Companies Act , do not . |
| 10 | There are archetypal anecdotes which crop up again and again in one form or another . |
| 11 | But in any event , in the way shown above , this concentration on squeezing the largest possible instalment payments into the confines of a weekly budget based on weekly pay-packets leaves the deep pitfall that people then have no leeway to cope with unexpected or higher-than-usual expenses which crop up 12m . |
| 12 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 13 | But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly . |
| 14 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 15 | The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often . |
| 16 | The questions ‘ where are we going ? ’ , and ‘ what are they doing ? ’ are concerns which crop up more and more . |
| 17 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 18 | There are recordings which back up such an assessment — principally the comparative versions listed above . |
| 19 | It can be very useful indeed to have research results which back up your own convictions . |
| 20 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 21 | There is a very clear , clean cut approach to the whole collection with the accent on strong graphics and sports oriented motifs to create renewed interest in the ‘ contemporary classic ’ shapes of the shirts , shorts , tops , sweaters , track suits , joggers and shell suits which make up the whole range . |
| 22 | EIE has bought 446,000 square feet of offices in two blocks of 11 and 15 storeys which make up Britannic House West , built 10 years ago and close to the Bank of England . |
| 23 | Three of the –e wards which make up Easton have a proportion exceeding 500/0 of households with no car ; one of these wards is above the average for the general area at 53.5 per cent of households . |
| 24 | Her carved wooden bodice suggests popular Mexican crafts , and particularly the calaveras , animated skeletons which make up her rib cage . |
| 25 | The change was welcomed by BHRCA members and , although there was no debate at the AGM before the vote , many spoke afterwards of earlier vigorous debates in the committees which make up the BHRCA . |
| 26 | Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Reassembling , say , all the designs for all the parts which make up a jet engine can be a time-consuming task on a relational database . |
| 29 | Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family . |
| 30 | All the trappings of Christmas — the decorated tree , lights , the presents we give , the crib , tinsel , crackers , the eating and drinking which make up our celebrations — are only ‘ signs ’ . |