Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] make up a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households .
2 Whether you see jumble as giving or refuse disposal , the fact is that it makes up a significant part of the income of small local organisations .
3 If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form
4 Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’
5 I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it .
6 That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ?
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