Example sentences of "[prep] make up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term is used mainly for made up composts in which the rock particle is the missing component , usually to avoid the risk , despite sterilization , of introducing disease . |
| 2 | Nanny of making up stories about her and saying bad things to get Frankie into trouble . |
| 3 | A sharp fall in the projected number of school-leavers is obliging employers to consider ways of making up shortfall by recruiting , and retaining , more women workers in their organisations . |
| 4 | The idea of endowment paid to a mother ‘ on account of her motherhood and on behalf of each of her children … is ’ , it was asserted , ‘ entirely opposed to the idea of relief of distress or poverty , because it implies a universal national provision and not a means of making up deficiencies in the incomes of particular families ’ . |
| 5 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 6 | In particular , the Kitchen herbs are liable not to be used unless they are very close to hand for the cook ; in the rush of making up food amongst all the other demands being made at the same time , a trough or window-box of herbs on the Kitchen windowsill or just outside the backdoor will ensure that culinary herbs are used daily . |
| 7 | To complicate matters still further , many parishes after 1795 began to adopt the Speenhamland system of making up wages to a minimum rate dependent upon the price of corn . |
| 8 | IT OCCURS to me that it might be as well to quote the time related charges or TRC that British Telecom should apply in making up bills for work , following last week 's item . |
| 9 | Essential technical hardware used in making up curtains includes a variety of curtain hooks of varying strengths , made of plastic or metal , which can be sewn on , slotted into pockets on special tapes , or pinned into hand headings . |
| 10 | Sew together as in making up techniques but without piping . |
| 11 | With you feeding Harry there wo n't be any problems about making up feeds . ’ |
| 12 | Do follow the instructions for making up garments . |
| 13 | The Select Committee on Employment recently produced a very good report on home workers , which revealed that many earn as little as 20p or 30p an hour for making up Christmas crackers . |
| 14 | Malcolm also made that contact when he and Bernie went on a trip up north , searching round textile factories for old fifties cloth to use for making up zoot suits . |
| 15 | With her sewing machine on the half-landing of the Pelham Street shop , she worked mostly at making up samples to send to Wales . |
| 16 | play with language , for example by making up jingles , poems , word games , riddles , and games which involve word and spelling patterns . |