Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 2 | How many sixths would you need to make up a third ? |
| 3 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 4 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 5 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , given their perception of the adult social world , drinking , whether at home when their parents were out , or illegally in pubs , seemed to make up a large part of their activities . |
| 7 | Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set . |
| 8 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 9 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 10 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 11 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 12 | You 're going to make up a a test sheet each pair er you 're going to cop you 're going to rough it out in your book . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The collection could consist entirely of culinary kinds ; the health-giving species can lead to a very large collection , as four , five or six different plants may be needed to make up a prescription . |
| 15 | 1 Are there special words in your area for any of these : child , playing truant , sandwich , packed lunch , look at , very surprised , too hot ( of a person ) , wood for the bonfire. 2 What other words and expressions are special to your area ? 3 Use the ideas you have got to make up a local phrase book for your area . |
| 16 | When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places . |
| 17 | The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present . |
| 18 | Text of the kind exemplified makes up a significant part of what children in primary school are expected to read . |
| 19 | And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co-operative ? |
| 20 | I left my blanket roll by the door and went around behind the counter and started making out a passenger list and tickets . |
| 21 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 22 | These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome . |
| 23 | At the same time , teachers were asked to make out a special report card on the child , itemizing health , academic standard , character , ability , and what they considered would be a suitable employment . |
| 24 | Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification . |
| 25 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is possible to describe some of the typical components that go to make up a paradigm . |
| 27 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 28 | The assumption remains that most women will continue to be satisfied with conventional provision and that the others , the ‘ more liberated ’ perhaps , can choose women 's studies options which now exist amidst the many other courses that go to make up a centre programme . |
| 29 | Whatever the actual part you play in the business , or indeed , if you have to play all the parts that go to make up a funeral directing business , what is your attitude towards the job as a whole ? |
| 30 | Figure 11.4 shows the complicated web of paper transfers that go to make up a transaction . |