Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] make up " in BNC.
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| 1 | England and Scotland , neither of whom have ever won the title , already have a nine-shot deficit to make up . |
| 2 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 3 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 4 | If we drop Gower , Lewis , Pringle , Ramprakash and Stewart , we could have a complete side made up of people with the middle initial . |
| 5 | It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half . |
| 6 | Marine bid to make up lost ground in the HFS League when they take on Gainsborough Trinity at College Road . |
| 7 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 8 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 9 | This type makes up 70 per cent of new loans , although it was almost unheard of a decade ago . |
| 10 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 11 | And in August nineteen forty two the Ministry of Supply issued Royal Ordnance factory workers a special supply of high grade make up , and a booklet entitled Look to your Looks . |
| 12 | Welcome to Ireland , and their comfortable , confusing , delightful brand of hospitality — And did they always keep this room made up for guests ? |
| 13 | While 39 per cent of those unemployed for up to six months were manual workers , this group made up almost half the unemployed who had been without work for between two and three years . |
| 14 | The UK operation will be headed by a three-man team made up of marketing director Jay Savoor ; financial director Dipak Rao and sales director Chris Gamble . |
| 15 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 16 | Despite some similarities with Kleisthenic Attica , Boiotia differed in that there was no great popular assembly made up of thousands ; still more important , Theban control of Boiotia was not as obvious and inevitable as Athenian control of Attica . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The completed bridge made up of Royal Engineer M2 floating rigs. such a bridge would normally be dismantled before dawn in wartime since it would be a prime target for enemy aircraft during daylight hours . |
| 20 | This painful catalogue makes up only a small part of the inventory of the ‘ art ’ of the restaurant … |
| 21 | He determined not to give Gina any housekeeping this week to make up for his losses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 24 | So here the relationship between the lexical concepts has to be marked in some way to make up for the inadequacy of the words to indicate what part of the general context of knowledge is to be engaged . |
| 25 | As we shall see below , truants defined in this way made up very small proportions of absentees . |
| 26 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 27 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 28 | The lighters employed moveable ballast made up of two-hundred-pound sacks of wet sand and crewing was hard work , particularly in a tacking race . |
| 29 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 30 | 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 . |