Example sentences of "to make up [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to make up a tube by winding and gluing layers of brown paper round a suitable former .
2 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
3 Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 .
4 Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point .
5 Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome .
6 Still , it was heartening to see that Baryshnikov , now that he is running a company of his own , was applying the wisdom taken for granted in ballet , but still to be learned in too many American contemporary companies : that it is dangerous to make up a mixed programme using the work of only one choreographer .
7 The patient 's requirement for frequent repetition of the Phosphorus led me to make up a 5ml dropper bottle as the stock bottle i.e. the LM granule dissolved in 5mls of water and alcohol instead of 100mls .
8 I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag .
9 The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom .
10 A word here in passing about what actually goes to make up a typical volcanic eruption cloud .
11 Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification .
12 Most nursing skills consist of a number of chains or subtasks combined to make up a complex response pattern .
13 Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved .
14 You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own .
15 However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year .
16 The other way is for the adults to make up a course .
17 To make up a box , get a piece of hardboard the same size as the panel for the box bottom .
18 These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome .
19 We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine .
20 Also please instruct records to make up a current personal dossier on Manville and all his known contacts .
21 So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots .
22 ‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully .
23 Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’
24 Beware the occasional haulage of dangerous goods ( to make up a full load , for instance ) .
25 Having pressed all the component parts to make up a wedding picture for the bride , there may be some pieces left over ( if you have followed my advice and pressed additional flowers and foliage in case of accident ) .
26 There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine .
27 Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day .
28 The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml .
29 Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set .
30 Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity .
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