Example sentences of "make up [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 2 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 3 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements . |
| 5 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 6 | In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements : |
| 7 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 8 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 9 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 10 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 11 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 12 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 13 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 14 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 15 | We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons . |
| 16 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 17 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 18 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 19 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 20 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 21 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 22 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |