Example sentences of "[verb] to make [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 3 | It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 11 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 15 | Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it , as I recall . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 20 | The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League . |
| 21 | I 'm going to make up the fabric I 've got . |
| 22 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 23 | If they pay most of your legal costs the contributions will be used to make up the difference and you will be refunded anything left over . |
| 24 | So Hinkley C and two further stations would be needed to make up the shortfall . |
| 25 | the necessary heading allowance , that is the amount of fabric needed to make up the heading |
| 26 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 27 | Yes , certainly Caspar would be told to make ready the royal bed-chamber tonight . |
| 28 | But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words . |
| 29 | As Gedanken peered into the bubble she began to make out the spacecraft . |
| 30 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |