Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] make up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 3 | In testing , a large number of sections or items which together make up the complete test . |
| 4 | Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress . |
| 5 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 6 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 7 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 9 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 10 | The contest to find ‘ budding ’ Percy Throwers was the brainchild of residents , who also make up the judging panel , along with executive representatives . |
| 11 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 12 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 13 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |