Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 2 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 3 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 4 | The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League . |
| 5 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 6 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 7 | But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words . |
| 8 | Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need . |
| 9 | Chromosomes are the ‘ blueprints ’ that the body cells use to make up the new individual . |
| 10 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 11 | Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss . |
| 12 | The reproductive system , the digestive system , the thinking system all go to make up the overall system . |
| 13 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 14 | The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) . |
| 15 | Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet . |
| 16 | While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude . |
| 17 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 18 | They include current selection theory describing the mechanisms of biological change , accounts of animal studies that provide evidence concerning the psychobiological ‘ platform ’ from which human life ascended , inferences from infrahuman primates and other animals to man , and finally a treatment of the evolution of the component faculties that go to make up the human mind . |
| 19 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 20 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 21 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 22 | If the message contains the word ‘ Secure ’ , that means the words following make up the introductory identification of someone who will contact him and give him orders . |
| 23 | Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of : |
| 24 | Tom Rooney looked at Patrick closely , his pale eyes squinting in the dim light as he attempted to make out the younger man 's expression . |