Example sentences of "make up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consistent with the purpose of the paper , one third of a typical number is made up of the perennial feature " Around the Country " , with reports from the branches about their activities and other local social news . |
| 2 | The company , made up of the non-American waste disposal interest of Waste Management International Inc , earned £96.4m pre-tax last year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements . |
| 7 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 8 | In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements : |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The crew of the train will be made up of the following people : Keith Dawson ( organiser of ‘ Vintage Train ’ ) ; . |
| 11 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 12 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 13 | Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments . |
| 14 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 15 | History , which can now no longer be considered a concept as such , is therefore made up of the incommensurable relation between these two disjunctive set-ups . |
| 16 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 17 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 18 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 19 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 20 | Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action . |
| 21 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 22 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 25 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 26 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 27 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |
| 29 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 30 | On both occasions the Soviet Union made up for the extreme weakness of its client but , by providing the personnel to operate missile sites , it was consciously limiting the ways in which these missiles could be used against Israel . |