Example sentences of "to make up [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But desperation leads people into rushed decisions when one or two people are urgently needed to make up a complement of tenants for a specific property .
2 But Soviet deputy farm minister N Averyanov said they would find it difficult to make up the deficit from imports because of the lack of hard currency .
3 The Reserve Bank of Fiji said in April 1990 that there had been a 23,000 net fall in the population since the 1987 coup , and that Fiji was now seeking experts from Thailand , China , Sri Lanka , the Philippines and Britain to make up the shortfall in professionals [ see also p. 36700 ] .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case .
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