Example sentences of "making up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's me making up a story , of course . |
| 2 | seems to be making up a bit . |
| 3 | With × 7 or × 8.5 , M42 is in the same field as the Belt , making up a spectacle which to me seems unrivalled in the whole of the sky . |
| 4 | Right , erm , very often it 's to do with making up a painting or a picture of some a picture of some kind is n't it , sticking different bits together , so if you get a , a collection of different things which makes a whole , whole with a w right . |
| 5 | Earlier , for brief periods of the day , she had contemplated making up a foursome not unhappily , might have taken risks , might even have ended up in bed with someone , the classic holiday encounter . |
| 6 | the main vertical stroke making up a type character . |
| 7 | IF YOU 'D LIKE TO TRY YOUR HAND AT MAKING UP A CROSSWORD FOR THE CONTEST YOU CAN SEND IT TO THE SAME ADDRESS . |
| 8 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 9 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 10 | ‘ The battle ’ hovers over the individual actions like in incorporeal cloud , distinct from them , but at the same time making up a surface of their meaning-effect , a simulacrum that brings the event into being at the moment when language and event coincide . |
| 11 | As long as patience and care are applied , making up a switchmode power unit is no more difficult than any other sort . |
| 12 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 13 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |
| 14 | Dr Paul Hansma and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have already produced AFM pictures of individual amino acids making up a peptide chain . |
| 15 | The school has applied to patent the design , and pupils are busy making up a batch of fifty to sell to commercial customers . |
| 16 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 17 | It was for the programme , making up a programme , the syllabus for the whole year . |
| 18 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 19 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 20 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 21 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 22 | Brenda often thought that this was the part of the working day she liked best , the hour before the staff arrived and the work of the Lab got really under way , when she and Inspector Blakelock worked together in the quiet emptiness of the hall , still and solemn as a church , making up a supply of manila folders ready to register the day 's new cases , repacking exhibits for collection by the police , making a final check of the Laboratory reports to courts to ensure that the examination was complete , that no relevant detail had been omitted . |
| 23 | and she goes , she goes oh that ca n't be true , she goes , she goes that ca n't be true your just making up a load of bull cos you never went to the cinema , I thought oh |