Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] make up " in BNC.

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1 It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence .
2 Is n't it such a pity that when it comes to the playing of the game he either forgets the rules or makes up new ones .
3 Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in .
4 Biochemists are therefore interested in the compounds that make up cells and organisms , and how they are formed and can interact .
5 Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat .
6 Let us by all means have a national core curriculum ; and let children be tested in the subjects that make up that curriculum .
7 In performance mode , each program is treated as a complete effect unit and can be controlled by editing the parameters that make up the program .
8 He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative .
9 The Teacher 's Books explain clearly how to teach each lesson , and how to get the best out of each of the books that make up the course .
10 ‘ An intensely interesting portion of the 25 shops that make up Wolverton Works is before me as I enter the wheel department , for here I have an opportunity of studying in detail the basis of the running of the modern railway-coach .
11 The secret of success in this task is finding the key words that make up the skeleton .
12 Good examples of this are the genes that give rise to the histones ( proteins that make up the chromosomal superstructure ) , the ribosomal RNA , the immunoglobulins and many others .
13 One obvious division is by the independent nations that make up the subcontinent ; the major three are shown in Figure 2.12 .
14 Rick Bateysifts through the veritable medley of classic influences that make up the latest sepia-tinted offering from Chandler in San Francisco …
15 The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth .
16 That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks .
17 Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’
18 In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages .
19 Try the NI FREE for three months and make up your own mind .
20 To a large extent the prison numbers crisis , and many of the problems that are associated with it , are the unintended outcome of a series of uncoordinated decisions taken , independently , by the various institutions that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales .
21 It embraces the various institutions that make up that the state — the House of Commons , the Cabinet , the civil service and so on — as well as the fundamental practices and rules that identify which institutions have power and how they relate to each other and to the larger political community .
22 This chapter describes , with some basic facts and figures , the range of institutions that make up the United Kingdom 's education system .
23 Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested .
24 Recently refurbished and extended , it provides a meeting room , a smaller games room with snooker table , and a kitchen , and is well used for all the activities that make up village life .
25 This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life .
26 The ‘ Rating Your Assertiveness Chart ’ , and the ‘ Everyday Situations that may require Assertiveness ’ lists provide a useful outline and examples of the different activities that make up assertive behaviour ( see Figures 6.3 and 6.4 ) .
27 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 .
28 Briefly summarised , these are first , that photosynthesis may be ‘ switched ’ on and off reversibly : and second , that its behaviour is highly modular in that the complex series of reactions that make up photosynthesis can be reviewed as going on inside a number of ‘ boxes ’ , each fairly distinct and separable from each other — the light-harvesting mechanisms , the conversion of the light energy to ATP , the use of ATP to make carbohydrates and so on .
29 All vitamins and essential minerals are necessary to assist in normal functioning of the thousands of different chemical reactions that make up the body 's metabolism .
30 I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ?
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