Example sentences of "make up the [adj] part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe itself made up the greater part of what Europeans regarded as the known world . |
| 2 | For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill . |
| 3 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 4 | It is these that make up the greater part of the transcribed conversations in Appendix 2 of this book . |
| 5 | In FE centres , National Certificate Modules make up the main part of the curriculum , whilst in schools , modules are used mainly to supplement other courses and as taster or enrichment courses . |
| 6 | Coal is likely to make up the largest part of UK energy demand in the year 2000 at 32% , slightly more than oil at 30% . |
| 7 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 8 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 9 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |