Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 2 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 3 | Since that time , and despite further hostilities in 1965 , the 1949 ceasefire line or " line of control " had separated Azad Kashmir ( " Free Kashmir " — the northern Pakistani-controlled sector ) from Indian-administered Kashmir , which together with Jammu further to the south made up the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir . |
| 4 | Every cindery boulder making up the jumbled chaotic surface is loose , irregularly angular in shape , and covered in razor-sharp protrusions . |
| 5 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 6 | It 's best to use the work of three or four children spanning the ability range ; but children of less than nine may not write much , and so you probably need more than three or four children 's work to make up the 100 . |
| 7 | There was enough starlight coming in the window to make out the dim shapes of bunkbeds and rucksacks . |
| 8 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 9 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 10 | The neck is ( you guessed it ) mahogany , again of reasonable quality , and all of one piece , save for an extra block making up the traditionally-pointed heel . |
| 11 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 12 | Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 . |
| 13 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 14 | Iota and Epsilon make up the famous ‘ False Cross ’ with two stars in Vela , Delta ( 2.0 ) and Kappa ( 2.5 ) . |
| 15 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 16 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |
| 17 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 18 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |
| 19 | In the case of the 4 , a lightly flame-patterned section makes up the main body , with a strip of darker walnut separating this from the attractively-grained birdseye on the front . |