Example sentences of "[Wh pn] make up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For women , who make up the majority of the increasing proportion of lone elderly people , there seems little prospect of an improvement in their economic position unless there is a considerable rise in the basic statutory pension . |
| 2 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 3 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 4 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 5 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 6 | I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers . |
| 7 | Work organisations are power hierarchies in which ‘ lower participants ’ — manual and white- collar employees who make up the bulk of the employed population — find themselves continuously under the control of others . |