Example sentences of "[noun sg] make up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 2 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 3 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 4 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 5 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 6 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 7 | A few letters and edited sections of four interviews with the artist make up the rest of the volume which has some interesting illustrations reproducing photographs of the artist and friends . |
| 8 | A hall , lounge , kitchen , dining area , three bedrooms and bathroom/ w.c. make up the accommodation . |
| 9 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |
| 10 | Iota and Epsilon make up the famous ‘ False Cross ’ with two stars in Vela , Delta ( 2.0 ) and Kappa ( 2.5 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 13 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |