Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] make up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Expectancy theories are concerned with the relationships among the inputs that make up motivation . |
| 6 | Before any computer system can generate or understand spoken words the complex waveforms that make up speech must be turned into a digital form that the computer can cope with . |
| 7 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 8 | If it rains , there will be aerobics and make up morning , followed by indoor cycling proficiency . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Paterson says , unlike rival offerings , the various modules that make up Momentum will cover all aspects of a customer 's business rather than just certain elements . |
| 10 | Er , what in fact this Committee is doing , is saying that at one of the sections that makes up part of it , you happen to have carry forwards spare from last year , therefore use them because we ca n't identify anything else in budget savings for this , next year . |
| 11 | Another message that comes over clearly is the need to separate out the different tasks that make up housework . |
| 12 | Although the tasks that make up housework are dissimilar , there is said to be a ‘ sameness ’ about them which derives from their frequent need to be repeated , their lack of intrinsic meaning , and the impermanence of the goals they achieve . |
| 13 | First , it provides a means of unifying the collection of heterogeneous tasks that make up housework ; dissimilar tasks are knitted together , and some kind of coherent job structure emerges . |