Example sentences of "[noun] to make [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 32 | In desperation , they asked Sally Carmichael for eight of her tallest girls to make up the line . |
| 33 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 34 | 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 ] . |
| 35 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 36 | Her enthusiasm did not , however , encompass all the complexities that would be involved in such a project , from researching the fabric to preparing special screens for printing and educating machinists to make up the dresses in a traditional way . |
| 37 | It follows therefore that the trustees can make a claim on the employer to make up the deficiency and claim a share in the company 's assets if the employer goes into liquidation . |
| 38 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 39 | Products from these colonies , notably tobacco and sugar , had joined those from Asia to make up the re-export trade which had been balancing Britain 's payments since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 . |
| 40 | Repeat this process on all four sides to make up the complete frame . |
| 41 | IN Monday 's paper ( Echo March 9 ) I read that the Darlington council poll tax will be £300 this year , this includes £19 to make up the shortfall for people who refuse to pay . |
| 42 | If the number of volunteers exceeded the number required , the company would be prepared to move drivers from quarry to quarry to make up the numbers . |
| 43 | And he called on the company to make up the £1,650 for lost bar , ice-cream and coffee sales . |
| 44 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Heavy wrought-iron black fireplaces were installed once more , to Ted 's irritation , as he 'd spent much of his working life tearing out fireplaces so women like my mother did n't have to get up early on freezing mornings to make up the fire on their knees . |
| 47 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
| 48 | A defendant whose doctor alleges that the plaintiff is malingering must be prepared to call that doctor at trial to make out the allegation and to face cross-examination . |
| 49 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 50 | This demonstrates once again the sensitivity of the conclusions to the choice of taxes to make up the rest of the package . |
| 51 | Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time . |
| 52 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 53 | So you are doing six hours to make up the four . |
| 54 | The waiter placed her coffee down on one of the small tables with a flourish , then whisked another chair from an empty table to make up the numbers . |
| 55 | Bride-to-be Sarah was given an extra wad of £20 notes by Barclays to make up the wages of 12 hotel workers . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |