Example sentences of "make up the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choline-containing phospholipids make up the major fraction of the lipid exposed at the cell surface , while the negatively charged phospholipids are confined to the cytoplasmic surface of the bilayer . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe 's traditional agricultural and mining sectors still make up the major portion of exports and are vulnerable to price changes . |
| 3 | Red clovers , alsikes , and trefoil , also very productive but short lived , make up the leguminous portion of these mixtures . |
| 4 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 5 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 6 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 7 | For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill . |
| 8 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 10 | In the case of the Anglican Church , whose buildings make up the largest group of ecclesiastical structures , there exists a quite involved and considered procedure which is defined by the Pastoral Measure of 1983 . |
| 11 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 12 | These make up the vast majority of expenditure . |
| 13 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 14 | ‘ These are the people who make up the vast majority of the paperback book-buying public . ’ |
| 15 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 16 | It is these that make up the greater part of the transcribed conversations in Appendix 2 of this book . |
| 17 | The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth . |
| 18 | At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan . |
| 19 | If the message contains the word ‘ Secure ’ , that means the words following make up the introductory identification of someone who will contact him and give him orders . |
| 20 | Taken together with the measurement of the gravitational spectral shift these measurements make up the classical tests of GR . |
| 21 | Hence the simplest approach to the study of social policy is to describe the policies and institutions that together make up the British system of social services . |
| 22 | In FE centres , National Certificate Modules make up the main part of the curriculum , whilst in schools , modules are used mainly to supplement other courses and as taster or enrichment courses . |
| 23 | This key theme crops up repeatedly throughout the book in all the contributions because it is through language that the hidden assumptions that make up the common sense of both theoretical and empirical discussions are revealed . |
| 24 | It is with understanding linguistic factors in relation to the concrete problems and activities which make up the daily reality of the school : what children need to learn , how they learn and what difficulties they experience . |
| 25 | As we have seen , the various ideological state apparatuses of a society are allotted the formidable task of constituting individual subjects , who then reproduce the practices which make up the structured totality of society . |
| 26 | Lymphocytes make up the predominating population of cells in site of florid chronic inflammation with many of the cells in a metabolically activated form . |
| 27 | In between the branches of the fibrils are amorphous areas and these , along with the amorphous interfacial regions between the lamellae , make up the disordered content of the semi-crystalline polymer ( figure 11.8 ) . |
| 28 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |