Example sentences of "[vb pp] make up [art] " in BNC.

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1 Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home .
2 Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure .
3 The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up .
4 Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy .
5 Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees .
6 Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set .
7 Television therefore helped make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election campaign but not very interested in politics more generally .
8 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
9 If they pay most of your legal costs the contributions will be used to make up the difference and you will be refunded anything left over .
10 But desperation leads people into rushed decisions when one or two people are urgently needed to make up a complement of tenants for a specific property .
11 The collection could consist entirely of culinary kinds ; the health-giving species can lead to a very large collection , as four , five or six different plants may be needed to make up a prescription .
12 So Hinkley C and two further stations would be needed to make up the shortfall .
13 the necessary heading allowance , that is the amount of fabric needed to make up the heading
14 The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours .
15 1 Are there special words in your area for any of these : child , playing truant , sandwich , packed lunch , look at , very surprised , too hot ( of a person ) , wood for the bonfire. 2 What other words and expressions are special to your area ? 3 Use the ideas you have got to make up a local phrase book for your area .
16 The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present .
17 Text of the kind exemplified makes up a significant part of what children in primary school are expected to read .
18 Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need .
19 This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency .
20 These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome .
21 Now bills for other bands from next April will have to be increased to make up the shortfall , says the Local Government Information Unit .
22 After this , your payments will be increased to make up the shortfall .
23 Most nursing skills consist of a number of chains or subtasks combined to make up a complex response pattern .
24 To start with there are 102 effects which can be combined to make up an effect chain using up to 6 effects simultaneously .
25 I 'd better answer your questions in case you 're tempted to make up the answers . ’
26 Earlier , for brief periods of the day , she had contemplated making up a foursome not unhappily , might have taken risks , might even have ended up in bed with someone , the classic holiday encounter .
27 Epistandard rates of evolution are required to make up the loss through extinction .
28 Almost all of the remaining capital required to make up the £1551 millions invested came from borrowing .
29 Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of :
30 This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities .
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