Example sentences of "[pron] make [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 2 | Mines would be grouped into seven holding companies to force profitable pits to support loss-makers , which made up two-thirds of the 63 mines . |
| 3 | The largest increase was in those to European Community ( EC ) countries , which made up 41.4 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | The reefs , which make up two thirds of those in the world , risk becomming underwater deserts . |
| 5 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 6 | The accident provoked protests from Japan 's vocal anti-nuclear community , which called for the reactor to be shut down , together with other old pressurized water reactors , which make up 17 of Japan 's total of 40 nuclear plants . |
| 7 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |
| 8 | Prices vary as follows on the items shown — Elkhorn Coral £19.99 ; Lettuce Coral £18.20 ; Flower Coral £31.99 ; Cup Coral large £9.25 ; Cup Coral small £5.60 ; and Blue Tube Sponge £13.36 ( which make up one of the special deals ) and a giant Elkhorn Coral which retails at £41.50 . |
| 9 | But it is Mansell 's unexpected prowess on the oval circuits , which make up six of the 16 races in the Indycar championship , which has been most impressive . |
| 10 | Edouard has a fifteen-per-cent share , I believe , and I have the same , which makes up thirty per cent . |
| 11 | Use water with the chill taken off if possible : if you make up two or three buckets of really hot water before you start you can mix these with the cold . |
| 12 | It is in short the question of the economic status and opportunities of those who make up seven-eighths of the community , not of any submerged residuum … |
| 13 | The co-leaders receive excellent support from trumpeter Terell Stafford , pianist Ed Simon and bass player Essiet Essiet , who make up one of the most consistently brilliant — but still under-valued — bands on the jazz scene . |
| 14 | I also want to cut the overheads of employing staff not directly involved in shoemaking who make up one third of our workforce . ’ |
| 15 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 16 | Mobility for women who make up 45 per cent of the labour force involves little choice once they reach the 25–30 age group when they are expected to take temporary retirement into marriage . |
| 17 | The US congressional committee was reluctant to accept the bill in its original form , arguing against Guam 's proposed power of veto over federal laws and regulations , and questioning the controversial proposal to limit the right of self-determination to the indigenous Chamorros , who make up 45 per cent of the island 's population . |
| 18 | Drought in the 1970s and again in 1983 brought four-wheel-drive Toyotas emblazoned with aid-agency logos but aid failed to alleviate the chronic poverty faced by the peasants who make up 90 per cent of the population . |
| 19 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 20 | In a referendum held on Sept. 8 in Macedonia 75 per cent of the registered electorate of 1,400,000 went to the polls ; they were boycotted by many of the Albanians who made up 25 per cent of the republic 's population . |
| 21 | " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . " |
| 22 | Firstly , there were the rich , who owned farms and employed labour in both agriculture and the home and who made up 20 per cent of the population . |
| 23 | In their enthusiastic welcome for the referendum result , Lithuanian leaders pointed out that many ethnic Poles and Russians ( who made up 20 per cent of Lithuania 's population ) must have voted for independence , contradicting Soviet allegations that Lithuania 's minorities felt persecuted and needed to be defended by Soviet troops . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 25 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 26 | They made up 16 per cent of conversion students but only 4 per cent of those studying on specialist IT courses . |
| 27 | They made up two-thirds of the membership during the period of rapid growth between 1905 and 1907 , and during the reaction of 1907–10 workers came to the fore in local party organizations across the country . |
| 28 | They made up one of the ten elite ‘ Strike Force ’ teams , all top field operatives who had been siphoned off from police , military and intelligence services around the world . |
| 29 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 30 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |