Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] make up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many occurrences of volcanic activity in areas remote from plate margins ; the volcanoes of the East African Rift system , such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya , the volcanic and associated hydrothermal activity of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming , U S A ( Fig. 4.3 ) , and the chain of volcanic peaks making up the Hawaiian Islands are examples from both continental and oceanic regions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 4 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 5 | Twelve of the 30 units making up the new HND in Social Care . |
| 6 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 11 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 12 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 13 | Externalized graphic , plastic , dramatic , or electronic representations make up the ‘ media ’ and provide that cultural environment that is so inextricably intercalated with the biology of the performers and the physicality of the environment . |
| 14 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 15 | The miscellany of different loans make up an alphabet soup of SALs , SECALs and ESAFs . |
| 16 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 17 | The new ecologists were particularly inclined to stress the interactions between the different species making up the population of each area . |
| 18 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 19 | The waiter placed her coffee down on one of the small tables with a flourish , then whisked another chair from an empty table to make up the numbers . |
| 20 | So you are doing six hours to make up the four . |
| 21 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 22 | At this magnification ( x 4 ) the individual pixels making up the image become visible . |
| 23 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 26 | In some cases the individual lines making up the envelope may be resolved ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | The same is true of the individual countries making up the European Community . |
| 28 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Choose freely from the calorie- and fibre-counted meals on the following pages to make up the remainder of your daily calorie and fibre total . |