Example sentences of "[verb] to make up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up .
2 Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy .
3 Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow .
4 The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League .
5 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
6 The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours .
7 Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need .
8 Chromosomes are the ‘ blueprints ’ that the body cells use to make up the new individual .
9 Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss .
10 The reproductive system , the digestive system , the thinking system all go to make up the overall system .
11 The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry .
12 The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) .
13 Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet .
14 While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude .
15 The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice .
16 They include current selection theory describing the mechanisms of biological change , accounts of animal studies that provide evidence concerning the psychobiological ‘ platform ’ from which human life ascended , inferences from infrahuman primates and other animals to man , and finally a treatment of the evolution of the component faculties that go to make up the human mind .
17 Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves .
18 The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue .
19 Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of :
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