Example sentences of "make up the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After much negotiation , the Welsh Wool Marketing Board agreed to a special arrangement whereby the Cambrian Mill could make up the Ashley 's own wool into cloth as long as this was not sold , but used only for demonstration models and pattern samples . |
| 2 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 3 | The traits which make up the individual 's personality have two main sources . |
| 4 | All vitamins and essential minerals are necessary to assist in normal functioning of the thousands of different chemical reactions that make up the body 's metabolism . |
| 5 | ‘ However , I think the large institutional investors , who make up the lion 's share of the market , will be interested in NIE if they see there will be a good return . ’ |
| 6 | It may however , be questioned , whether this role should be performed by a mixture of hereditary and life peers who make up the Lords ' membership or , indeed , whether there is an important role here at all . |
| 7 | Radioactivity exists naturally , emanating from the rocks that make up the Earth 's crust , particularly granite , and also in cosmic rays from space . |
| 8 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 9 | The worries of Ladybird Johnson about her husband 's health ( he had suffered heart attacks before becoming president ) were a factor in his withdrawal ; but it was the unsolved problem of Vietnam that was decisive in making up the President 's mind . |
| 10 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 11 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 12 | ‘ The problems and opportunities in the four divisions [ Agricultural , Fibres , Mond , and Petrochemicals & Plastics ] making up the Group 's heavy chemical interests were broadly similar , and their activities were already closely linked in terms of mutual dependence on material supply . |
| 13 | You now have the necessary items to make up the patient 's stock bottle in the consulting room . |
| 14 | Breton and Wintrobe object to the assumption that the factors which go to make up the bureaucrat 's utility function — salary , ‘ perks ’ , and so on — are necessarily a positive monotonic function of the total budget . |
| 15 | Gamma , a decidedly orange K-type star , makes up the Dragon 's head with Beta , Xi ( 3.7 ) and Nu , which is a wide double ; each component is of magnitude 4.9 , and the ‘ twins ’ are identical . |
| 16 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |