Example sentences of "make up the [noun sg] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 4 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 5 | Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries . |
| 6 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |