Example sentences of "[noun] make up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 2 | The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack . |
| 3 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 4 | The volume of data making up a single MSS image places some restrictions on its use . |
| 5 | ‘ There is still a long way to go , though , and nobody at this club forgets that , two seasons ago , Aberdeen made up a ten-point deficit and took Rangers to the last day of the season before they ( Rangers ) won the title . ’ |
| 6 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 7 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 8 | Contemporary dance , comedy , cabaret , pantomime and drama make up a packed schedule . |
| 9 | Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population . |
| 10 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 11 | The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml . |
| 12 | Overseas firms make up a significant proportion of the membership . |
| 13 | A further major problem associated with the use of the network variable is that it is most readily operationalized to study speakers whose networks are of a relatively closeknit type and can not easily handle socially and geographically mobile speakers whose personal network ties are not predominantly dense or multiplex ; yet , such persons make up a substantial proportion of the population in a post-industrial society . |
| 14 | It is vital to realise that while such values and those of the other culture are only perceptions , such perceptions make up a social reality . |
| 15 | How many observations make up a large number ? |
| 16 | Since the reflectance values for the area making up a single image are recorded in four wavebands , the total volume of data for a single scene is 30408528 bytes , since each pixel requires one byte of storage . |
| 17 | Sequential processing of data files makes up a large proportion of data processing . |
| 18 | At second level the department offers a series of five half-courses , which students can combine in various ways to make up a full course . |
| 19 | Virgo makes up a characteristic Y-shape . |
| 20 | Seals make up a large part of the diet of the great white shark the beast which terrified movie-goers in Jaws and is regarded as the most dangerous shark species . |
| 21 | hornemanni make up a similar pair , the former more southerly in distribution but overlapping in parts of their range . |
| 22 | Caroline 's comment : Commercial baby foods make up a substantial part of the average baby 's diet and they are very convenient . |
| 23 | The number of shepherds , stockmen , etc. is simply not known , but it is still the case that employed artisans made up a significant proportion of the urban male population . |
| 24 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , due to the higher incidence of physical illness among elderly people , nurses without specialist mental health qualification made up a high proportion of the complement of staff |
| 26 | It might be suggested that the employed women make up a particular group with respect to housework attitudes : women who are dissatisfied with housework may turn to employment as a palliative . |
| 27 | Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population . |
| 28 | At any location on the curve the components make up a tangent vector , and this transforms according to eqn ( 5.1 ) . |
| 29 | Trade-unionists make up a decreasing proportion of the electorate . |
| 30 | Bell and Newell ( 1971 , Chapter 2 ) suggest a pair of notations for describing computers ; ISP ( Instruction Set Processor ) for descriptions at the instruction level , and PMS ( Processor-Memory-Switch ) for an over-all view of hardware components making up a complete computer system . |