Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 2 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 3 | He did not attempt to remember all the features that together make up a face . |
| 4 | If it can be made intelligible , then it is only in terms of certain structural concepts which are all interdependent and mutually complementary , and together make up a logically self-subsistent whole . |
| 5 | These publications are very valuable , even when they require correction , but they only make up a tiny part of the huge body of statistical information now available in print . |
| 6 | It is a lot easier these days , so make up a little cocktail of compatible systemic insecticide and fungicide , plus a drip or two of washing-up detergent to achieve a good wetting , in a small bowl , and swish the two leaves of each cutting in the solution so that they get a good wetting and protective coating . |
| 7 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 8 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 9 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |
| 10 | It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale . |
| 11 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 12 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 13 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 14 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 15 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 16 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 17 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 18 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 19 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 20 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 21 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 22 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 23 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 24 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 25 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 26 | Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat . |
| 27 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 28 | Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable . |
| 29 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 30 | Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon . |