Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 9 | Eliot drew attention to the view that cars , gramophones , and central heating are inessential to civilization , but pointed to a more subtle fallacy which equated art with civilization and so saw ‘ Alaskan or Solomon Island wood carvers were more ‘ civilized ’ than the workmen and workwomen who turn out the bibelots of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 10 | It is these people and the religious helpers who go round the streets of our own town preaching their faith to help others , who are the real heroes . |
| 11 | The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today . |
| 12 | Many positions of great influence in British society are filled by individuals who carry out the duties of their office for no monetary reward at all . |
| 13 | So in this case the people who carry out the will of the people make the laws on behalf of the people . |
| 14 | The quarter or more of the world 's population who live around the rim of the Pacific are too diverse to be cutely grouped as the ‘ Pacific man ’ in the ‘ Pacific century ’ , so readily defined by fund managers and futurologists . |
| 15 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 16 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |