Example sentences of "who made up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 2 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 3 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 4 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 5 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 6 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 7 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 8 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 9 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 10 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 11 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |