Example sentences of "[adv] to make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 3 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In order to explain this excess radiation additional inputs of energy to Jupiter from beyond the planet have been considered , but none seem anywhere near large enough to make up the difference . |
| 6 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 7 | They have telescope mirrors comparable in size to the one on the Hubble space telescope — but , one hopes , not afflicted by the Hubble mirror 's distortions — and produce images good enough to make out an object the size of a paperback book . |
| 8 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 9 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 10 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |
| 11 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 12 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 13 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |