Example sentences of "[conj] make up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 2 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 3 | The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise . |
| 4 | They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force . |
| 5 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 6 | Hooker Phil Kearns said : ‘ If winning can inspire so many people than I can put up will the months of hard slog , sleepless nights , aches and pains and fleeting fears of failure that make up a World Cup campaign . |
| 7 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 8 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 9 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 10 | The idea of this quiz is to earn letters that make up a quote by answering the questions correctly . |
| 11 | An additional consequence of this narrow definition has been an emphasis and preoccupation with the chemical and reactive sequences leading to signal generation , with little or no attention given to the materials that make up a biosensor . |
| 12 | The basic idea is that the cosmid probes that make up a contig should hit cosmid clones which are all hit by one or two YACs . |
| 13 | Screen 1 Here 's a directory listing showing a typical selection of the files that make up an application |
| 14 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 15 | It 's better to admit that you do n't know and then go away to find out the answer , than to make up an answer that is not true ! |
| 16 | Each of the chants , songs , or poems that makes up a unit teaches a basic structure and is extended by a relevant picture activity . |
| 17 | ‘ What we need is to put more focus on creating brand-consciousness — and by that I mean everything that makes up a brand , such as style , colour , fashionableness , image , price , quality . |
| 18 | Each application places its own peculiar burden on the hardware that makes up a system . |
| 19 | These three are in the same field , and make up a triangle . |
| 20 | Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own . |
| 21 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 22 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 23 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 24 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |