Example sentences of "[noun] make up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 2 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 3 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 4 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 5 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 6 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 7 | As with new courses , in any one session , of all candidates actively involved in assessments , some will be taking assessments which are early steps along the way to the award , whilst others will be taking assessments which will complete the set of subjects making up the group awards . |
| 8 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 9 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 10 | Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause . |
| 11 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 12 | Members of seven parties making up the Union for Democratic Renewal ( URD ) , a newly formed opposition alliance , refused to join the government . |
| 13 | On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall . |
| 14 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |
| 15 | The landscape manager faces major practical difficulties due to lack of basic information , including the extent and location of the individual elements of land cover ( woodlands , moorlands , farmland , etc ) or the way in which these elements make up the landscape . |
| 16 | Jane made up the basket for the bridesmaid from a sweet and innocent mixture of soft pink roses , sweet peas ( the pink and mauve ‘ Painted Lady ’ and the blue ‘ Countess Cadogan ’ ) , small sprays of pink larkspur , pink marguerites and the miniature Victorian gladiolus ‘ The Bride ’ . |
| 17 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 18 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 19 | Although reformist communists made up the bulk of members of these groupings , they refused the whip of the local party committee . |
| 20 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 21 | In some cases the individual lines making up the envelope may be resolved ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 22 | Each of the three hypotheses making up the theory of determinism to be expounded in the first part of this book has to do with mental events , which is to say events within consciousness . |
| 23 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 24 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 25 | Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss . |
| 26 | Parish churches have been told they will receive less money from investments made by the Church of England in property and businesses , and St Cuthbert 's is asking its congregation to start making ‘ realistic ’ donations to make up the shortfall . |
| 27 | Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ? |
| 28 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 29 | By the end of that day the Allies had put 120 000 men ashore ; 60 000 American troops made up the assault force on the western beaches of Normandy , nicknamed Utah and Omaha . |
| 30 | That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal . |