Example sentences of "make up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ln this case , the attributes ‘ name ’ and part' will make up the composite key of the ORDER relation . |
| 2 | Mono-unsaturates ( MUFAs ) should make up the largest proportion of fats consumed . |
| 3 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
| 4 | But MDHC is optimistic it will make up the lost revenue by increased levels of freight . |
| 5 | Two author studies made up the highest proportion of articles in both journals . |
| 6 | Both were compatible with the republican-radical ideals which made up the official ideology of the Third Republic and which in 1880 meant in the main a deep distrust of Russia , the oppressor of the Poles . |
| 7 | Europe itself made up the greater part of what Europeans regarded as the known world . |
| 8 | They passed Scotland Yard ; Westminster Abbey came into sight ; the tower of St Margaret 's and the roofs , turrets and gables , shop-dwellings , houses and taverns , which made up the small city of Westminster . |
| 9 | Reaction to pre-sumed threats to liberty and freedom , as well as a long-standing tendency to support the " victims " of government , made up the political dimension of London crowd action . |
| 10 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 11 | Since that time , and despite further hostilities in 1965 , the 1949 ceasefire line or " line of control " had separated Azad Kashmir ( " Free Kashmir " — the northern Pakistani-controlled sector ) from Indian-administered Kashmir , which together with Jammu further to the south made up the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir . |
| 12 | It was this group of active questioners which made up the hard core of the evangelists who spread the new Christian teachings or ‘ Gospel ’ to many parts of the northern hemisphere . |
| 13 | SPD participants opposed proposals put forward by members of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ( CDU and CSU , which together with the Free Democratic Party — FDP — made up the ruling coalition at federal level ) , to criminalize the refusal to leave the scene of a violent demonstration if requested by police , and to allow longer detention in custody of repeat offenders . |
| 14 | Short response items made up the initial sections of these tests . |
| 15 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 16 | The choline-containing phospholipids make up the major fraction of the lipid exposed at the cell surface , while the negatively charged phospholipids are confined to the cytoplasmic surface of the bilayer . |
| 17 | Zimbabwe 's traditional agricultural and mining sectors still make up the major portion of exports and are vulnerable to price changes . |
| 18 | And third , the various laws which make up the Mosaic Code as part of God 's covenant with the Hebrew nation , set the framework for a system of political economy . |
| 19 | Red clovers , alsikes , and trefoil , also very productive but short lived , make up the leguminous portion of these mixtures . |
| 20 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 21 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 22 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 23 | For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill . |
| 24 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 26 | In the case of the Anglican Church , whose buildings make up the largest group of ecclesiastical structures , there exists a quite involved and considered procedure which is defined by the Pastoral Measure of 1983 . |
| 27 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
| 28 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 29 | These make up the vast majority of expenditure . |
| 30 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |