Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] make up a " in BNC.

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1 This section provides an overview of the various activities that make up a typical risk management programme , and then presents some examples of good practice derived from Engineering Council studies and other sources .
2 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 .
3 So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen .
4 Each of the chants , songs , or poems that makes up a unit teaches a basic structure and is extended by a relevant picture activity .
5 Nevertheless I remember those unsettled days as making up a hard and rough year .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 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 ?
9 The opening screen is in fact a text editor that you can use to enter the commands that make up a QBasic program .
10 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 .
11 The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise .
12 The idea of this quiz is to earn letters that make up a quote by answering the questions correctly .
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