Example sentences of "who make [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The black leader says he will accept the Number Two nomination from any Democrat , but many Jews , who make up a good third of New York 's Democratic voters , dislike Jackson intensely for his support of the Palestinian cause and past reference to New York as ‘ Hymietown ’ . |
| 2 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 3 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 5 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |