Example sentences of "who make up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 2 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
| 3 | But when she sees the Teds and greasers and hard-faced girls who make up the matinee audience , she thinks it 's just as well . |
| 4 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 5 | That is a question many Regulars ask about each of the 75,000 or so volunteers who make up today 's TA . |
| 6 | Such concessions are designed for the Muslims who make up Indonesia 's poor rural majority . |
| 7 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 8 | Depictions of the nativity meanwhile show her with her son , with Joseph , the angels , the ox and the ass , the shepherds and the magi : with all the characters who make up the Christmas story . |
| 9 | Despite three decades of campaigning by homosexuals to remove the stigma from their sexuality , to call a man a queer in Britain is still an actionable insult in the minds of the ‘ right-thinking people ’ who make up libel juries . |
| 10 | The black leader says he will accept the Number Two nomination from any Democrat , but many Jews , who make up a good third of New York 's Democratic voters , dislike Jackson intensely for his support of the Palestinian cause and past reference to New York as ‘ Hymietown ’ . |
| 11 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 12 | Street pedlars , who buy from wholesalers according to availability and cost , and those who make up or cook foodstuffs for sale , would fit into this group . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is in short the question of the economic status and opportunities of those who make up seven-eighths of the community , not of any submerged residuum … |
| 15 | Currently , especially in the Western world , the mass media provide a constant reminder that personal safety is threatened not only by the elements , and objects and events in the environment , but also by the humans who make up the society . |
| 16 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
| 17 | The co-leaders receive excellent support from trumpeter Terell Stafford , pianist Ed Simon and bass player Essiet Essiet , who make up one of the most consistently brilliant — but still under-valued — bands on the jazz scene . |
| 18 | I also want to cut the overheads of employing staff not directly involved in shoemaking who make up one third of our workforce . ’ |
| 19 | And at the end of the twentieth century , it is the unchurched who make up the vast , tens of millions strong majority of the population . |
| 20 | That comforting ‘ usual ’ audience are the connoisseurs of all things cool who make up the heaving Dingwall 's audience on any Sunday afternoon . |
| 21 | What has sustained him throughout , he says , has been the support of the top 20 firms and , crucially , the presence of non-practitioners — who make up half the membership — on the board . |
| 22 | They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears Only those books come down which deserve to last . |
| 23 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 26 | Wahl Bartmann , Tiaan Strauss , Jannie Breedt and Ian MacDonald of the forwards and centres such as Pieter Muller and Jannie Classen will revel in this approach , as will all of the very physical players who make up the game here . |
| 27 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 28 | For women , who make up the majority of the increasing proportion of lone elderly people , there seems little prospect of an improvement in their economic position unless there is a considerable rise in the basic statutory pension . |
| 29 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 30 | While it is clear that an enormous range of interest groups exist in Japan , few would argue that small firms , non-unionized labour ( who make up over 70 per cent of the total ) , minority groups or the elderly have the same continuous access to the state as do large companies . |