Example sentences of "make up the " in BNC.

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1 Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture .
2 There is a very clear , clean cut approach to the whole collection with the accent on strong graphics and sports oriented motifs to create renewed interest in the ‘ contemporary classic ’ shapes of the shirts , shorts , tops , sweaters , track suits , joggers and shell suits which make up the whole range .
3 We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign .
4 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 .
5 At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan .
6 This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of
7 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 .
8 Evidence that the SCN are the body clock can be summarized as follow : ( 1 ) Rhythmic electrical activity can be recorded from the nerve cells that make up the SCN and this rhythm has a period of about 24 hours .
9 At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group .
10 However , 30 June 1989 saw the Battalion deployed on its biennial AMF(L) exercise to Denmark , hard at work alongside the other armies that make up the AMF(L) .
11 In the case of the Anglican Church , whose buildings make up the largest group of ecclesiastical structures , there exists a quite involved and considered procedure which is defined by the Pastoral Measure of 1983 .
12 The change was welcomed by BHRCA members and , although there was no debate at the AGM before the vote , many spoke afterwards of earlier vigorous debates in the committees which make up the BHRCA .
13 They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match .
14 Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar .
15 Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets .
16 These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened .
17 Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family .
18 For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill .
19 The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response .
20 Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group .
21 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 .
22 Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants .
23 Seefried , Patzak and Ferrier , together with the less well-known Horst Gunter , make up the quartet of soloists ; Clifford Curzon and Hans Oppenheim are the two pianists .
24 Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions .
25 The Congress of People 's Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of renaming the Russian Federation ‘ Russia ’ , but within minutes members from the republics which make up the huge state were demanding restoration of the word ‘ federation ’ .
26 The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings .
27 The aim is to provide a series of acceptable solutions which meet the needs of the various constituencies that make up the organisation .
28 Externalized graphic , plastic , dramatic , or electronic representations make up the ‘ media ’ and provide that cultural environment that is so inextricably intercalated with the biology of the performers and the physicality of the environment .
29 Whether they functioned as transmitters was difficult to prove : the technical problems of access to particular sites inside the skull , located in the middle of the dense networks of nerve cells and fibres which make up the brain , are still far from being completely solved .
30 There are several glands associated with the urethra , which ( like the seminal vesicles ) produce secretions that , added to the spermatozoa , make up the ejaculate .
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