Example sentences of "[adj] to make [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the costs at the home you prefer are greater than the fees payable by the Social Work Department , your placement will be dependent on a third party being willing to make up the difference , ie a relative , a charity or a trust . |
| 2 | It was even impossible to make out the enormous saw which had been the cause of the accident . |
| 3 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 4 | Still , it was heartening to see that Baryshnikov , now that he is running a company of his own , was applying the wisdom taken for granted in ballet , but still to be learned in too many American contemporary companies : that it is dangerous to make up a mixed programme using the work of only one choreographer . |
| 5 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 6 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 7 | Coal is likely to make up the largest part of UK energy demand in the year 2000 at 32% , slightly more than oil at 30% . |
| 8 | Luke Harvey put Katabatic under strong pressure , but never looked likely to make up the leeway and was five lengths down at the finish . |
| 9 | Altering the relative breadth , depth or pattern of courses seems likely to make only a marginal difference to their reputation inside and outside the higher education system . |
| 10 | It is also very useful to make up a full-scale plan of the seat of the chair , to mark in the positions of the mortises and tenons , especially as , the original being glued up , it is not possible to see exactly how the original joints went together . |
| 11 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 12 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 13 | many ear that when the Home office cuts its grant from next April , local authorities wo n't be able to make up the shortfall . |
| 14 | It is also important to be able to make out a continuing and convincing case to young people . |
| 15 | Once his eyes became accustomed to the gloom he was able to make out the double curve of the banister as it snaked from the dark first-floor landing into the inky blackness of the main stairwell . |
| 16 | He looked across the field cum river bank in the general direction of civilisation , and with the aid of the moonlight was able to make out the familiar gables of the Blue Boar , a hundred yards away . |
| 17 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 18 | They were able to make out the locomotive 's smoke-box and cab , and the glare of the fire reflecting through the spectacle plate on the cab front . |
| 19 | If the atmosphere is clear you might just be able to make out the Mournes on the horizon . |
| 20 | " Patrick has disappeared , " Katherine said without preamble , glancing around , barely able to make out the seated figure of the man beside the fire . |
| 21 | With government , central or regional , unable to make up the difference between parents ' ability to pay and the needs of schools , sharp differences in quality of education are inevitable . |
| 22 | The orders were very strict that one could not move off until the oil temperature was above the minimum and on this occasion I was quite determined to make up the time . |
| 23 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 24 | But Soviet deputy farm minister N Averyanov said they would find it difficult to make up the deficit from imports because of the lack of hard currency . |
| 25 | In the dim light it was difficult to make out the illustration . |
| 26 | There were no windows on the first-floor landing , and in the dark it was difficult to make out the numbers on the doors . |
| 27 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 28 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 29 | This meant that we were obliged to make quite a number of our tools . |
| 30 | This was short-lived however , as in 1979 following the rearrangement of the shareholding in the Anglo American group , Charter Consolidated acquired JCI 's shares in addition to those of Anglo to make up a 28 per cent holding in all . |