Example sentences of "[noun pl] make up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 2 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 3 | Words in the 19th century were still viewed as individual items which could be stuck together like bricks to make up sentences . |
| 4 | The construction of new warehousing within the Port of Belfast will benefit directly Northern Ireland 's export drive through the ability to aggregate goods from the many small companies making up Northern Ireland 's manufacturing industry . |
| 5 | The new industries that had sprung up in Kingston 's poorer areas making up clothes from pre-cut American cloth to export back to the US relied on cheap female labour . |
| 6 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 7 | No fewer than eight classic Stones ' tracks make up Rooster , the new work from leading choreographer Christopher Bruce , which can be seen as part of a triple bill at the Empire from tonight until Saturday . |
| 8 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 9 | In 1992 , VAX-related revenues made up 70% of total group turnover , but Turner expects this to drop to 60% in 1993 as AS/400 business continues to grow . |
| 10 | A flexing of the green planes making up Bryn 's face could have been interpreted as a smile . |
| 11 | In Gabon , the prosimian Euoticus elegantulus , by contrast , has gums from trees and lianes making up 75% of food intake . |
| 12 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 13 | The screws made up promises , like if we took the barricade down they 'd leave us alone , they would n't punish us . |
| 14 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 15 | This leads to random fluctuations in the numbers of alternative variants making up gene families and , as in gene conversion , one variant copy may replace all the others throughout a sexual population . |
| 16 | Now the distinctness of the ALT patterns making up P and Q means that the sets of booleans unc and unc both partition the states satisfying b according to these shapes . |
| 17 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 18 | Leaves make up 15% wet weight of the diet of the omnivorous white-throated capuchin monkey ( Cebus capucinus ) on Barro Colorado Island . |
| 19 | SOCCER IS CLEARED IN SEX CASE ‘ Grudge boys made up story' ( Star ) ; SEX CASE JOHN BULL CLEARED ( Sun ) ; FOOTBALL MASCOT IS CLEARED ( Daily Mirror ) . |
| 20 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 21 | Pupils classified as unauthorised absentees made up 11% ( June ) and 7% ( November ) of the total surveyed . |
| 22 | ‘ The fabrics are from top manufacturers such as Osborne & Little , but we can use others to make up sample boards for our customers if we prefer . ’ |
| 23 | It is useful in making preliminary plans showing the relationship of the parts , the sequence of assembly and which groups of parts make up subassemblies . |
| 24 | It is useful in making preliminary plans showing the relationship of the parts , the sequence of assembly and which groups of parts make up subassemblies . |