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

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1 Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture .
2 A number of European countries are dependent on migrants from poorer European or Third World nations to make up a labour shortage in certain industries .
3 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
4 These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) .
5 A group of control intervals makes up a control area .
6 And how many days and weeks and years made up a duration was anybody 's guess .
7 The set of three translational degrees of freedom for each of a set of N atoms is modified when the atoms make up a molecule .
8 However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year .
9 A group of data planes makes up a memory bank .
10 The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers .
11 These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership .
12 Dr Paul Hansma and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have already produced AFM pictures of individual amino acids making up a peptide chain .
13 Leaders representing religious parties , Kurds , communists and pro-Syrian Baathists made up a steering committee which graciously answered reporters ' questions .
14 The miscellany of different loans make up an alphabet soup of SALs , SECALs and ESAFs .
15 We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine .
16 A group of such households makes up a village and between such groups there is usually hostility from simple avoidance of one another to open warfare .
17 Three of its leading stars make up a triangle , inside which lies the red supergiant .
18 It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function .
19 The syllables making up an instruction are placed immediately after the syllables of the previous instruction , without regard for the boundaries between words .
20 ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’
21 Smokers and ex-smokers make up a subgroup at increased risk for development of adenocarcinoma in Barrett 's oesophagus ; those patients with specialised type metaplasia and who may benefit from surgical intervention warrant regular endoscopy and biopsy whereas non-smokers are at low risk .
22 It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope .
23 Others make up a bed on the sofa each night .
24 The f are the components of the gradient of φ , and so a useful physical view is that covector components make up a gradient .
25 ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon .
26 A collection of these tags makes up a style sheet and , together with the skeleton document , are saved as a template .
27 The other way is for the adults to make up a course .
28 You may wish to photocopy these spells to make up an Ice Magic spell deck .
29 Having pressed all the component parts to make up a wedding picture for the bride , there may be some pieces left over ( if you have followed my advice and pressed additional flowers and foliage in case of accident ) .
30 He says it could be a person who 's removing animal parts to make up a potion .
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