Example sentences of "[noun] to make up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mobile phone retailers are now supplying the once popular car phone free , bar an installation charge , and rely on bill-related bonuses to make up the entire profit . |
| 2 | Concern was expressed over the failure of Cala Homes to make up the roads to serve their new houses . |
| 3 | On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall . |
| 4 | It 's best to use the work of three or four children spanning the ability range ; but children of less than nine may not write much , and so you probably need more than three or four children 's work to make up the 100 . |
| 5 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 6 | The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall . |
| 7 | Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss . |
| 8 | Parish churches have been told they will receive less money from investments made by the Church of England in property and businesses , and St Cuthbert 's is asking its congregation to start making ‘ realistic ’ donations to make up the shortfall . |
| 9 | Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ? |
| 10 | It was the custom of the train crews to make up the fish trains from empty stock located in the New Clee sidings , between Grimsby and Cleethorpes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We order a further 1,000kg at £5/kg to make up the 3,000kg . |
| 13 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 14 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 15 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 16 | In Niemeyers , for example , the company language is English which is used for 70% of all non-Dutch communication ( with French and German each approximately 15% to make up the rest ) . |
| 17 | Choose freely from the calorie- and fibre-counted meals on the following pages to make up the remainder of your daily calorie and fibre total . |
| 18 | Following this brief , Whitaker had gone ahead commissioning a crop of four part stories to make up the twelve shows needed to keep Doctor Who on air for forty-eight weeks — one year in BBC terms , allowing for Christmas , sports events and other potential breaks . |
| 19 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 20 | The only thing , other thing is we 've been you know debating about the er stuff to make up the wax which we 'll have to go to Morrells by all , and get it sent here |
| 21 | They bond perfectly , without the need for 100mm slips next to the corner block to make up the half-bond . |
| 22 | The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You now have the necessary items to make up the patient 's stock bottle in the consulting room . |
| 25 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 28 | Coun Carr said they had no option but to ask pass users to make up the difference . |
| 29 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 30 | In desperation , they asked Sally Carmichael for eight of her tallest girls to make up the line . |