Example sentences of "[prep] make up the " in BNC.

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1 Facing up the slope and against the wind in the second half , Chelmsford had no chance of making up the deficit .
2 Meanwhile , the cost to the French Treasury of making up the budget deficits of its African friends is mounting .
3 Given the difficulties of making up the capacity backlog in the short term , attention inevitably focussed on the other side of the equation : the growth in demand and the possibility of restricting it .
4 These rustic errors can be corrected at the stage of making up the templates and the seat plan .
5 Well just colleagues about the Burnsall dispute erm er clearly and I 'm just anticipating the views of Congress that since we adopted a particularly way of making up the er Dispute Fund , I think we should certainly adopt exactly the same practice in relation
6 The government , which controls around 85 per cent of the country , has turned to logging as a way of making up the shortfall in revenue resulting from the end of Soviet aid , and its loss of the Palinn gem mines in western Cambodia to Khmer Rouge forces .
7 MIDI In and Out and 9 volt DC in make up the rest of the sockets , with the mains switch completing the facilities .
8 The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage .
9 Following the discussion made earlier , in making up the examples , care was taken to eliminate any action where there was a clear role-asymmetry between the characters .
10 Colugos have no problems in making up the height lost when gliding .
11 Among these , according to Fedor Polenov , Head of the Russian Delegation and Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Culture , is the intention on the German side to give Russia a number of works from the Bremen Collection for Russian museums , and also to give financial and technical aid for the restoration of the Novgorod Museum and Park , and to help in making up the museums collection which was destroyed during the war .
12 As Becker says , every story can play its part in making up the mosaic that will , in the end , be our picture of the social life of the time and place being studied .
13 My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole .
14 The worries of Ladybird Johnson about her husband 's health ( he had suffered heart attacks before becoming president ) were a factor in his withdrawal ; but it was the unsolved problem of Vietnam that was decisive in making up the President 's mind .
15 Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement .
16 If these principles were not part of the staple diet of home life , the battle was ‘ already half lost ’ , no matter how skilled teachers , social workers or other professionals might be in making up the deficiency .
17 And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care .
18 She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours .
19 The directions for making up the solutions for patient use are defined quite clearly in the 6th edition 248 footnote .
20 Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont .
21 The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings .
22 In a year when the annual quantity required ( 207,461,000 cu. ft. ) is balanced by adequate rainfall then the storage must be such as to make up the supply during the relatively dry period .
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