Example sentences of "[noun] make [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection .
2 Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft .
3 Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display .
4 Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk .
5 Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 .
6 Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture .
7 The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls .
8 The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response .
9 Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles .
10 As with new courses , in any one session , of all candidates actively involved in assessments , some will be taking assessments which are early steps along the way to the award , whilst others will be taking assessments which will complete the set of subjects making up the group awards .
11 Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range .
12 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase .
13 Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause .
14 The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort .
15 Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party .
16 Members of seven parties making up the Union for Democratic Renewal ( URD ) , a newly formed opposition alliance , refused to join the government .
17 the main vertical stroke making up a type character .
18 Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket .
19 Concern was expressed over the failure of Cala Homes to make up the roads to serve their new houses .
20 A number of European countries are dependent on migrants from poorer European or Third World nations to make up a labour shortage in certain industries .
21 On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall .
22 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
23 Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA .
24 The landscape manager faces major practical difficulties due to lack of basic information , including the extent and location of the individual elements of land cover ( woodlands , moorlands , farmland , etc ) or the way in which these elements make up the landscape .
25 Jane made up the basket for the bridesmaid from a sweet and innocent mixture of soft pink roses , sweet peas ( the pink and mauve ‘ Painted Lady ’ and the blue ‘ Countess Cadogan ’ ) , small sprays of pink larkspur , pink marguerites and the miniature Victorian gladiolus ‘ The Bride ’ .
26 Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage .
27 Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office .
28 Although reformist communists made up the bulk of members of these groupings , they refused the whip of the local party committee .
29 In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population .
30 In some cases the individual lines making up the envelope may be resolved ( see Chapter 4 ) .
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