Example sentences of "they make up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 2 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 3 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 4 | Today they make up a sad string of tarnished beads , from Bombay , Calcutta and Rangoon to Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) , Hanoi and Canton . |
| 5 | With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system . |
| 6 | They make up a physically-associated system , but the real separation between them is over 300000 million kilometres . |
| 7 | They make up a wide pair , with beautiful contrasting colours ; Lambda is white and Mu very red , with an M-type spectrum . |
| 8 | In certain areas of higher education — physics and engineering , for example — they make up a tiny proportion of students . |
| 9 | Social class differences are equally stark : in spite of the fact that manual workers are the majority of the working population , they make up a small proportion of those covered by retirement pensions . |
| 10 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 11 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 12 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 13 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |