Example sentences of "which makes [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other conspicuous star is Beta ( 2.9 ) , which makes up a nice little group with three other stars , Epsilon ( 5.1 ) , Eta ( 5.3 ) and Gamma ( 4.3 ) . |
| 2 | Joyce Grenfell was right , as ever , when she said there is no giving without receiving , that they are both part of the same circle which makes up a whole spiritual act . |
| 3 | ‘ Databases using Clipper 5.0 ’ by Will Chapman illustrates how to build business databases by taking the reader on a guided tour of the code which makes up a generic multi-purpose database using the popular Clipper DBMS language . |
| 4 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 5 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 6 | It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us . |
| 7 | And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year . |
| 8 | One item which makes up the package is life assurance — a benefit for which all employees over the age of 18 are eligible . |
| 9 | The systematic pattern of adjustments in market plans which makes up the market process arises , as we have seen , from the market participants ' discovery that their anticipations were overly optimistic or unduly pessimistic . |
| 10 | Words , he said , are interdependent parts of the ‘ structural ’ system which makes up the language . |
| 11 | First , they invite you to show that you are familiar with the basic , raw material which makes up the subject — whether this is a work , a series of works , a literary theory , the historical context of an author or what critics have said about something . |
| 12 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 13 | Its brightest star is the slightly yellowish Delta ( 3.6 ) , which makes up an inconspicuous triangle with Gamma and Alpha ( each 4.1 ) . |