Example sentences of "makes up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The union 's membership makes up a quarter of the County 's teaching strength .
2 Sigma consists of two dim stars , close to Aldebaran ; Delta ( 3.8 ) , makes up a pair with the fainter star 64 Tauri ( 4.8 ) ; and Theta is a naked-eye double , made up of a white star of magnitude 3.4 and a K-type orange companion of magnitude 3.8 .
3 Hence the rather long question that makes up the sub-title of this section .
4 Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus .
5 Furthermore , this pattern of decisions is recognized as of very special interest because it makes up the state of equilibrium .
6 This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast .
7 It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us .
8 But their genes — DNA — are simply distributed around the cytoplasm , the material that makes up the body of the cell .
9 Though to me , Mrs. Proudie seems to be the strongest of the trinity that makes up the Bishop of Barchester — Dr. Proudie , Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope — Dr. Grantly at first dismisses her saying that ‘ when a woman is impertinent , one must only put up with it , and keep out of her way in future ’ .
10 The procuticle , which may be absent from the tracheoles , is secreted by the epidermal cells and makes up the bulk of the integument .
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