Example sentences of "[coord] make up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 2 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 3 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 4 | Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at . |
| 5 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 6 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 7 | The paraglider itself is rectangular and made up of numerous cells or pockets running from the front to the rear of the wing . |
| 8 | The tunnel was seven feet in diameter and made up of cast-iron segments with its own air-conditioning plant , lighting and heating . |
| 9 | Group turnover was once again almost unchanged at £307 million , thanks to the inclusion of £10 million from the £18 million acquisition of Royal Tufton last May , and operational profits actually rose 3 per cent to £27.1 million , with packaging and specialist materials in the UK and Europe performing best , and making up for weaker profits from North America and from plastics . |