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

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1 Feed manufacturers make up this deficiency in their compound feeds for hard work and stud purposes , ie they ‘ balance ’ the mixture .
2 Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits .
3 Such states were a majority of the twenty or so units making up political Europe .
4 When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club .
5 One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well !
6 The same is true of the second column — the two elements making up that column are getting closer together in value as P is raised to successively higher powers .
7 Thus sodium , one of the two elements making up common salt , produces two bright yellow lines ( as well as a host of others ) .
8 Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue .
9 Of this , undamaged bottles and containers make up 200,000 tonnes .
10 Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy .
11 With voting in 11 states making up Super Tuesday , computers projected President George Bush an easy winner on the Republican side but forecast an embarrassing economic protest vote for rightwing challenger Pat Buchanan in Florida .
12 Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected .
13 Desires experienced at the level of practical consciousness are sometimes hard to assess because they are welded to the objects making up habitual routines .
14 Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land .
15 Next , the xy coordinates of the points making up each line segment were read from the map and recorded manually , together with the identifier of the country to the left and the country to the right in the direction of digitizing ( as illustrated in the 2D encoding and USGS DLG examples of data structures in Chapter 2 ) .
16 A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety .
17 Then the following sets of components make up three tensors ( A , B , C ) of rank 2 : while has rank 3 .
18 Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers .
19 Gray 's Printing press in Strabane is also open on Saturday ( 2pm-4pm ) to show how text was composed by hand using individual metal letters to make up each word .
20 Cut all the vegetables to make up 4 kebabs .
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