Example sentences of "which [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 5 | Both these are very different from the ‘ experimental researches ’ which made up Faraday 's main research-publications , where every paragraph is numbered consecutively up to 3,299 , and where theorizing is kept in its place in the Baconian manner . |
| 6 | His idea of duty took the form of inviting Neil to join him in the nightly round of enjoyment which made up Stair 's life . |
| 7 | The Colne Valley Divisional Labour Party was formed in June 1917 , the Leeds City Labour Party reorganized itself in April and May 1918 , and promoted the formation of constituency parties in the six divisions which made up Leeds , while constituency parties were formed for all four of the Bradford seats in April 1919 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Associative feminist psychologies address the different signification systems which make up psychology 's material and psychology itself . |
| 10 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 11 | Their attitudes to the separate tasks which make up housework are on average very similar to the attitudes of the middle-class group . |
| 12 | If the people and positions which make up society did not differ in important respects there would be no need for stratification . |
| 13 | The larger systems which make up communities and nations are currently in a state of flux because of the impact of technology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of the 160 residents of Upper , Middle and Lower Weald , which make up Calverton have lived here almost all their lives . |
| 16 | Its 20 staff support two distributors and 11 resellers across Ireland and in the six counties north of the border which make up Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Diférance is the force behind , or rather in language ; it produces the effects of difference which make up language . |
| 18 | Lying in the wake of a glorious civilisation dating back many thousands of years , the million square kilometres which make up Egypt seem to breathe history through every grain of sand . |
| 19 | All but three of the 34 residents at the Victoria Residential Home on Barton Street have come from the collection of buildings which make up Aycliffe Hospital . |
| 20 | Lying in the sparkling Pacific , the volcanic islands which make up Hawaii are a small slice of sophisticated Americana mixed with warm tropical breezes , coconut trees and magnificent beaches . |
| 21 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 22 | The question enrages China , which gobbled up Tibet in 1951 ( to few protests at the time ) . |
| 23 | It is the word which came up time and again in the story of Jacob 's tricking his dying father . |
| 24 | Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved . |
| 25 | After 50yds fork right onto a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe . |
| 26 | Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support . |
| 27 | The Green Party — which put up candidates in 250 of 651 constituencies — called for a major shift from income taxes to " green " taxes aimed at reducing the use of raw materials and non-renewable energy sources . |
| 28 | The lories , a branch of the parrot family , have acquired a tongue with little papillae on its surface that can be erected to form a brush with which to sweep up nectar . |
| 29 | The 16-tonnes Shear Pack is the remotely controlled machine which cuts up fuel assemblies ready for the next stage in reprocessing , the chemical separation of the various elements . |
| 30 | What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place . |