Example sentences of "[conj] make [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’
2 Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders .
3 He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel .
4 Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route .
5 The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital .
6 They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station .
7 Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead .
8 In three other areas , as much political as organizational , advances were made towards the management of the press , the coordination of the heterogeneous collection that made up the party , and the fostering of modern attitudes in the local parties .
9 The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars .
10 Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy .
11 By the 1960s the cricket authorities therefore wanted a better crowd-drawer than the old three-day games between counties that made up the county championship .
12 The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town .
13 The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells .
14 Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government .
15 Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land .
16 The Basque was a careful farmer : forests , destroyed elsewhere in Spain without thought , were preserved by complicated methods of replanting that made good the losses to forges and shipyards .
17 The term syntagmatic was attached by Saussure to the sequential or combinatory relationships that a given language system permits : the relationship between the three sounds , for instance , that make up the word ‘ tree ’ , or the syntactical relationship between the words ‘ the tree is green ’ , and so on .
18 Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school .
19 Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole .
20 In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit .
21 Are our organs of government too crude to deal with the conflicting claims of the myriad small communities that make up the whole ?
22 Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture .
23 Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes .
24 A colour catalogue , costing £3 , also illustrates the abundance of smaller accessories that make up the Shaker look .
25 The 26 environmental groups that make up the Everglades Coalition say the agreement does not go far enough , failing to tackle the problem of how to restore the natural rise and fall of water in the swamps , which has been disrupted by dikes , canals and other human intervention .
26 Generally speaking , the most important rules in society are those that make up the law , with laws decided upon by powerful and influential groups in society .
27 The aim is to provide a series of acceptable solutions which meet the needs of the various constituencies that make up the organisation .
28 Evidence that the SCN are the body clock can be summarized as follow : ( 1 ) Rhythmic electrical activity can be recorded from the nerve cells that make up the SCN and this rhythm has a period of about 24 hours .
29 This focus on services shifts our attention to a different aspect of the social division of labour from that discussed in the previous chapter , namely the separate firms and industries that make up the service sector .
30 With dtp , the user can process pages of material as wholes , as well as the individual text and graphic items that make up the pages .
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