Example sentences of "[pron] make up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 3 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 4 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 5 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 6 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 7 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 8 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 9 | Close to Deneb is the little group made up of Omicron¹ ; ( 3.8 ) , Omicron² ; ( 4.0 ) and 32 , which make up a trio in the same × 12 field . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 12 | It also houses a collection of old aeroplanes which make up the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Museum ; which includes among its exhibits a Lancaster bomber , two Hurricanes and four Spitfires . |
| 13 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 14 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 15 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 16 | Gennard sets out six propositions which make up the theory in its strongest version . |
| 17 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 18 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 19 | The sugars formed by combining the hydrogen with the carbon dioxide are then converted into substances called starches ( the main components of flour and potatoes ) which can be elaborated further into the many complex materials which make up the bodies of living things . |
| 20 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 21 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 22 | All the known particles in the universe can be divided into two groups : particles of spin 1/2 , which make up the matter in the universe , and particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 , which , we shall see , give rise to forces between the matter particles . |
| 23 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 24 | The pixels which make up an image on a digitized computer screen are like building blocks which can be coloured and combined in any way the operator 's computer , competence and ingenuity allow . |
| 25 | It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us . |
| 26 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 27 | She made up a poem for the diamond diamond jubilee . |
| 28 | In the morning , she made up a cot for Oreste , placing on the pillow a small felt rabbit Pilade had once loved . |
| 29 | In the year 18 — you made up a mixture of chemical powders for Doctor Henry Jekyll . |
| 30 | For women , who make up the majority of the increasing proportion of lone elderly people , there seems little prospect of an improvement in their economic position unless there is a considerable rise in the basic statutory pension . |