Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 2 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 3 | The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack . |
| 4 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 5 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 6 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 7 | A number of European countries are dependent on migrants from poorer European or Third World nations to make up a labour shortage in certain industries . |
| 8 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 9 | How many fourths make up a whole how many fourths to make a whole one ? |
| 10 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 11 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | A group of control intervals makes up a control area . |
| 13 | And how many days and weeks and years made up a duration was anybody 's guess . |
| 14 | The set of three translational degrees of freedom for each of a set of N atoms is modified when the atoms make up a molecule . |
| 15 | As TGAT pointed out , pupils with special educational needs make up a very diverse group . |
| 16 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 17 | Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population . |
| 18 | However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year . |
| 19 | A group of data planes makes up a memory bank . |
| 20 | Overseas firms make up a significant proportion of the membership . |
| 21 | These chargepayers make up a very small amount of the total value of outstanding community charge . |
| 22 | The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers . |
| 23 | A further major problem associated with the use of the network variable is that it is most readily operationalized to study speakers whose networks are of a relatively closeknit type and can not easily handle socially and geographically mobile speakers whose personal network ties are not predominantly dense or multiplex ; yet , such persons make up a substantial proportion of the population in a post-industrial society . |
| 24 | It is vital to realise that while such values and those of the other culture are only perceptions , such perceptions make up a social reality . |
| 25 | These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership . |
| 26 | How many observations make up a large number ? |
| 27 | Dr Paul Hansma and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have already produced AFM pictures of individual amino acids making up a peptide chain . |
| 28 | Leaders representing religious parties , Kurds , communists and pro-Syrian Baathists made up a steering committee which graciously answered reporters ' questions . |
| 29 | We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine . |
| 30 | A group of such households makes up a village and between such groups there is usually hostility from simple avoidance of one another to open warfare . |