Example sentences of "make up the bulk of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 2 | Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people 's language . |
| 3 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 4 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 5 | I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers . |
| 6 | Together , then , the public services and the transport and distributive industries make up the bulk of service sector employment . |
| 7 | Work organisations are power hierarchies in which ‘ lower participants ’ — manual and white- collar employees who make up the bulk of the employed population — find themselves continuously under the control of others . |
| 8 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 9 | In FE , where the modules make up the bulk of the non-advanced curriculum , each student , on average , undertakes six modules . |
| 10 | Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries . |