Example sentences of "[verb] to make [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many sixths would you need to make up a third ? |
| 2 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 3 | These are mixes which are designed for the horse owner who still wants to feed traditionally ie oats etc , but wants to make up the deficiencies with a specific mix . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She tried to make out an expression on his creased face . |
| 6 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 7 | It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall . |
| 8 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 9 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 10 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 11 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 12 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 13 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 14 | The media helped to make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election but not very interested in politics generally . |
| 15 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 16 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 17 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 18 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 19 | He squinted to make out the figure above the nearest open door , but it was completely encrusted with grime ; the name and number above the next building however , was Number Two . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 21 | Have decided to make quite an easy day of it , and stay at the Youth Hostel in Lausanne tonight . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it , as I recall . |
| 24 | In the ancient world these dies were engraved by hand , but from the early medieval period punches began to be hammered into the die to make up the designs . |
| 25 | In what was in effect a mini-budget , Wilson announced on Dec. 19 , 1989 , a reduction in the proposed GST from 9 per cent to 7 per cent but announced further measures to make up the revenue loss . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers . |
| 28 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |