Example sentences of "make [adv prt] the majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |
| 2 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 3 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 4 | Because women live longer , they make up the majority of the very elderly population requiring care , and they in turn look to their daughters and other female relatives . |
| 5 | These children make up the majority of patients in growth disorder clinics . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 11 | The Class 158 diagram replacing the loco-hauled Cambrian Coast express continues , with green liveried Centro 2 or 3 car sets making up the majority of Cambrian workings . |
| 12 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |