Example sentences of "make [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A has its meaning within the couplet only in the light , or sense , of B , and B in the light , or sense , of A. In the case of Isa 40.3 , for instance , the couplet does not mean B , even if B is more precise than A. It means ( i ) prepare Yahweh 's way in the sense of making straight a highway , and it means ( ii ) make straight the highway as an act of preparing a way for Yahweh , and it means both of these things concurrently .
2 Oil production will fall by about 5% to make up 26% of total production while coal production will increase by 60%to make up a proportion of energy production similar to 1983 .
3 ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ .
4 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 .
5 Corvus adjoins Hydra , and is easily recognizable because of the four leading stars , which make up a quadrilateral : Gamma and Beta ( each 2.6 ) , and Delta and Epsilon ( each 3.0 ) .
6 Do n't , for example , make up a story like
7 We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them .
8 Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster .
9 Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture .
10 Make up a mortar mix of 1 part masonry cement to 4½ parts of soft sand , keeping the mix dryish so it wo n't slump when slabs are placed upon it
11 Theta ( 3.6 ) and Eta make up a pair .
12 The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise .
13 You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left !
14 And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters .
15 Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar .
16 4 Make up a continuation of the story , using any clues you can find .
17 Make up a bed according to standard procedure , for a postoperative thyroidectomy patient .
18 For example , the objective ‘ make up a bed , according to standard procedure ’ draws on general standards in that waterproof pillow-covers and light bedding would be required , and local standards for bed making , whether that means a ‘ general tucking-in all round ’ or ‘ all corners perfectly rectangular and with the top sheet turned over 32.5 cms ’ .
19 ‘ Others make up a bed on the sofa each night .
20 ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you .
21 The f are the components of the gradient of φ , and so a useful physical view is that covector components make up a gradient .
22 But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ?
23 They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force .
24 Zeta ( 3.8 ) , Pi ( 4.9 ) and Omicron ( 4.6 ) make up a triangle in the same × 7 field ; Omicron is decidedly orange .
25 Three of its leading stars make up a triangle , inside which lies the red supergiant .
26 These three are in the same field , and make up a triangle .
27 Make up a chart like this .
28 and there 's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gon na ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go , you know , really as a , to keep , make up a foursome sort of thing
29 the various formats which make up a style sheet- paragraph settings , margins and columns , page layouts , hyphernation and justification , widow and orphan control and automatic section numbering .
30 ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’
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