Example sentences of "makes [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable .
2 However , none of this makes up a complete education and training programme for a building surveyor : it is only the first part , the second being the professional training component culminating in the Test of Professional Competence .
3 Interaction between arpeggios and scales makes up a big part of my personal style , and I 've included examples #5 and #6 to show a favourite approach of mine .
4 A large fold-down flap makes up a double bed , a small flap fulfils a dual purpose as cupboard door and table .
5 Text of the kind exemplified makes up a significant part of what children in primary school are expected to read .
6 Whether you see jumble as giving or refuse disposal , the fact is that it makes up a significant part of the income of small local organisations .
7 It is this hard core of unemployed — that is , those who have been out of work longest — that makes up a large part of the new underclass .
8 Sequential processing of data files makes up a large proportion of data processing .
9 Virgo makes up a characteristic Y-shape .
10 Beta is a wide pair ; it makes up a lovely spectacle in binoculars , and is in a rich field .
11 They 're employed , we start on their gross salary , gross remuneration , what makes up an employed person 's gross package , gross salary .
12 Its brightest star is the slightly yellowish Delta ( 3.6 ) , which makes up an inconspicuous triangle with Gamma and Alpha ( each 4.1 ) .
13 Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge .
14 The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world .
15 The commander , who is typically a twenty-three-year-old Lance-Corporal , makes up the four-man crew .
16 And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year .
17 This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales .
18 That is not to say that there are not many other ‘ innocent ’ causes for these two symptoms , but simply that urethritis , which is usually sexually transmitted , makes up the great majority of such cases .
19 Makes up the usual thing !
20 ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history .
21 In the case of the 4 , a lightly flame-patterned section makes up the main body , with a strip of darker walnut separating this from the attractively-grained birdseye on the front .
22 Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ .
23 Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg .
24 Domain III ( residue 501 to the C terminus , residue 644 ) together with Domain I , makes up the bulky end of the wedge-shaped molecule .
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