Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's best to use the work of three or four children spanning the ability range ; but children of less than nine may not write much , and so you probably need more than three or four children 's work to make up the 100 . |
| 2 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 3 | Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss . |
| 4 | That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal . |
| 5 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 6 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 7 | The only thing , other thing is we 've been you know debating about the er stuff to make up the wax which we 'll have to go to Morrells by all , and get it sent here |
| 8 | They bond perfectly , without the need for 100mm slips next to the corner block to make up the half-bond . |
| 9 | Rather you should aim for 20% ( on the inches-per-gallon reckoning ) ; increase that gradually , over six months , to 50 per cent , and then allow natural growth rate to make up the difference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 15 | It follows therefore that the trustees can make a claim on the employer to make up the deficiency and claim a share in the company 's assets if the employer goes into liquidation . |
| 16 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 17 | If the number of volunteers exceeded the number required , the company would be prepared to move drivers from quarry to quarry to make up the numbers . |
| 18 | And he called on the company to make up the £1,650 for lost bar , ice-cream and coffee sales . |
| 19 | It is possible to cut a more readily available 86/88 inch Series One roof and fit a new piece of aluminium to the middle to make up the difference , but this is not really a perfect solution . |
| 20 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
| 21 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 22 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is a facility in that for people who choose a home that has a higher charge , to arrange a third party to make up the difference , and we have a number of those , those type of contracts . |
| 25 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |