Example sentences of "make [adv prt] the difference " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 2 | Cost £1.00 per person , Crosslink will make up the difference . |
| 3 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 4 | This meant that state pensions would be reduced , but the private scheme must then guarantee to at least make up the difference . |
| 5 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 6 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 7 | Where they are disadvantaged , women make up the difference . |
| 8 | Various fees and charges make up the difference between the offer and bid prices , such as profit , brokerage charges , trustees ' fees and contract stamp , although the maximum permissible spread is regulated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | The Brewery advanced £800 to finance this at 5% , the sale of the land below the 6th ( £325 ) making up the difference . |
| 10 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 12 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 13 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 14 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 15 | It is possible to cut a more readily available 86/88 inch Series One roof and fit a new piece of aluminium to the middle to make up the difference , but this is not really a perfect solution . |
| 16 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 17 | With government , central or regional , unable to make up the difference between parents ' ability to pay and the needs of schools , sharp differences in quality of education are inevitable . |
| 18 | That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal . |
| 19 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 20 | Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ? |
| 21 | Rather you should aim for 20% ( on the inches-per-gallon reckoning ) ; increase that gradually , over six months , to 50 per cent , and then allow natural growth rate to make up the difference . |
| 22 | The clinics will have to make up the difference with funds from the Länder , thereby ensuring that the money is used for its intended purpose . |
| 23 | The currency deal expired in July ; if the exchange rate remained the same , Virgin would be obliged to pay £6m , to make up the difference . |
| 24 | However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 25 | In order to explain this excess radiation additional inputs of energy to Jupiter from beyond the planet have been considered , but none seem anywhere near large enough to make up the difference . |
| 26 | If the costs at the home you prefer are greater than the fees payable by the Social Work Department , your placement will be dependent on a third party being willing to make up the difference , ie a relative , a charity or a trust . |
| 27 | However , it was reported on Dec. 12-14 that Saudi Arabia had made an exceptional cash payment of nearly £2,000 million to make up the difference . |
| 28 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 29 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 30 | There is a facility in that for people who choose a home that has a higher charge , to arrange a third party to make up the difference , and we have a number of those , those type of contracts . |