Example sentences of "who [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'll meet the woman who thinks up the questions , learn the secret of how the Blockbusters board works . |
| 2 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Currently , especially in the Western world , the mass media provide a constant reminder that personal safety is threatened not only by the elements , and objects and events in the environment , but also by the humans who make up the society . |
| 6 | Instead information is being collected on the background and activities of all the members of a number of the quasi-groups who make up the core fans . |
| 7 | As stated earlier these strategies are defined as ‘ activating forces within the system to alter the system ’ , and they involve either improving the problem-solving capabilities of the system , or releasing and fostering growth in the persons who make up the system to be changed . |
| 8 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Similarly , an appropriate promotional " mix " may be formulated to provide the most effective communication to , and persuasion of those specific people , who make up the segment , or are likely to seek the product or its benefits within the purchase contexts that the analysis has identified . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But when she sees the Teds and greasers and hard-faced girls who make up the matinee audience , she thinks it 's just as well . |
| 14 | Wahl Bartmann , Tiaan Strauss , Jannie Breedt and Ian MacDonald of the forwards and centres such as Pieter Muller and Jannie Classen will revel in this approach , as will all of the very physical players who make up the game here . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
| 17 | Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species . |
| 18 | We need to look for opportunities to tell stories about American business from the perspective of all the workers who make up the team , rather than solely from the perspective of top managers . |
| 19 | This week the students who make up the team are spending all their spare time making sure everything 's ship shape to defend their title . |
| 20 | Concluding his report to the Governors Mr Vernon returned to the people who make up the RNLI , and without whom it could not exist . |
| 21 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 22 | Depictions of the nativity meanwhile show her with her son , with Joseph , the angels , the ox and the ass , the shepherds and the magi : with all the characters who make up the Christmas story . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |