Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the bulk " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 2 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 3 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 4 | Today the man in charge outlined the sort of people who 'll make up the bulk of the 450-strong workforce . |
| 5 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 6 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 7 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 8 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 9 | Peter Brachaki 's TARDIS control room set made up the bulk of the design requirements , leaving Cusick only with the task of constructing two dormitory rooms . |
| 10 | Although reformist communists made up the bulk of members of these groupings , they refused the whip of the local party committee . |
| 11 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 12 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 13 | The " lower orders " made up the bulk of the population . |
| 14 | Several Trade Unions agreed to support the Communist application , among them the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , whose votes made up the bulk of those recorded for Communist affiliation at the Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 16 | Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people 's language . |
| 17 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 18 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 19 | I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers . |
| 20 | Together , then , the public services and the transport and distributive industries make up the bulk of service sector employment . |
| 21 | Work organisations are power hierarchies in which ‘ lower participants ’ — manual and white- collar employees who make up the bulk of the employed population — find themselves continuously under the control of others . |
| 22 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 23 | In FE , where the modules make up the bulk of the non-advanced curriculum , each student , on average , undertakes six modules . |
| 24 | Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries . |
| 25 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 26 | The wife takes on the bulk of the household tasks even if the husband may help occasionally . |
| 27 | The departmental appraisals took up the bulk of the self-evaluation report . |
| 28 | A £150 million rights issue in October 1991 enabled MB-Caradon to pay off the bulk of its borrowings and selling its stake in Carnaud-Metalbox would almost certainly be followed by an acquisition in the building materials sector . |
| 29 | Fossil fuel , used for stationary and mobile energy sources , and nuclear energy are discussed in some detail , making up the bulk of the book . |
| 30 | This was rejected by organized labour and , significantly , by the predominantly mixed races making up the bulk of the poor and underprivileged in cities , towns and in Andean Indian communities . |