Example sentences of "[conj] make up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 2 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 3 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 4 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 5 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 6 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 7 | The conclusions are based , as they have to be , on the smaller bits of behaviour that make up a given style . |
| 8 | The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise . |
| 9 | An additional consequence of this narrow definition has been an emphasis and preoccupation with the chemical and reactive sequences leading to signal generation , with little or no attention given to the materials that make up a biosensor . |
| 10 | Hooker Phil Kearns said : ‘ If winning can inspire so many people than I can put up will the months of hard slog , sleepless nights , aches and pains and fleeting fears of failure that make up a World Cup campaign . |
| 11 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 12 | Both can be presumed to matter most when and where they are most influential — as in the charting of the interests , concerns and methods of analysis that make up a new academic discipline . |
| 13 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 14 | They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force . |
| 15 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 16 | The idea of this quiz is to earn letters that make up a quote by answering the questions correctly . |
| 17 | The opening screen is in fact a text editor that you can use to enter the commands that make up a QBasic program . |
| 18 | This section provides an overview of the various activities that make up a typical risk management programme , and then presents some examples of good practice derived from Engineering Council studies and other sources . |
| 19 | The basic idea is that the cosmid probes that make up a contig should hit cosmid clones which are all hit by one or two YACs . |
| 20 | ‘ What we need is to put more focus on creating brand-consciousness — and by that I mean everything that makes up a brand , such as style , colour , fashionableness , image , price , quality . |
| 21 | Each of the chants , songs , or poems that makes up a unit teaches a basic structure and is extended by a relevant picture activity . |
| 22 | Each application places its own peculiar burden on the hardware that makes up a system . |
| 23 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 24 | Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own . |
| 25 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 26 | These three are in the same field , and make up a triangle . |
| 27 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 28 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 29 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 30 | And the man who made his money out of glass lenses invited the finest craftsmen in Britain to design and make up a series of stained glass windows . |