Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] make up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference .
2 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 .
3 Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment .
4 Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation .
5 The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development .
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