Example sentences of "[noun] make up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feed manufacturers make up this deficiency in their compound feeds for hard work and stud purposes , ie they ‘ balance ’ the mixture . |
| 2 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 3 | Such states were a majority of the twenty or so units making up political Europe . |
| 4 | When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club . |
| 5 | Marine bid to make up lost ground in the HFS League when they take on Gainsborough Trinity at College Road . |
| 6 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 7 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 8 | The same is true of the second column — the two elements making up that column are getting closer together in value as P is raised to successively higher powers . |
| 9 | Thus sodium , one of the two elements making up common salt , produces two bright yellow lines ( as well as a host of others ) . |
| 10 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 11 | What can I do ? ? — Donations of gifts of food or goodies : gift tokens or donations can be left at the John Paul Centre ( daytime or Knights of St Columba , Southfield Road , ( evenings ) to enable the CAUSE group to make up suitable Christmas Hampers . |
| 12 | Of this , undamaged bottles and containers make up 200,000 tonnes . |
| 13 | Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy . |
| 14 | A man in the basement toils all day making up brown paper packages . |
| 15 | Iron and steel make up one quarter of Luxembourg 's national income . |
| 16 | In ( b ) we are not asking the student to make up any bed but a particular kind of bed for a particular patient . |
| 17 | How far the private sector will be prepared to finance " special needs " housing where the return on capital is likely to be limited is doubtful , as also is the Government 's commitment to make up any shortfall . |
| 18 | With voting in 11 states making up Super Tuesday , computers projected President George Bush an easy winner on the Republican side but forecast an embarrassing economic protest vote for rightwing challenger Pat Buchanan in Florida . |
| 19 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 20 | Desires experienced at the level of practical consciousness are sometimes hard to assess because they are welded to the objects making up habitual routines . |
| 21 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |
| 22 | Here 's the peasants The gentry made up three percent of the population in the countryside . |
| 23 | Next , the xy coordinates of the points making up each line segment were read from the map and recorded manually , together with the identifier of the country to the left and the country to the right in the direction of digitizing ( as illustrated in the 2D encoding and USGS DLG examples of data structures in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety . |
| 25 | Then the following sets of components make up three tensors ( A , B , C ) of rank 2 : while has rank 3 . |
| 26 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 27 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 28 | Gray 's Printing press in Strabane is also open on Saturday ( 2pm-4pm ) to show how text was composed by hand using individual metal letters to make up each word . |
| 29 | ‘ Positive discrimination ’ in favour of boys was operated in that context for many years , yet such ‘ discrimination ’ in favour of girls — such as by providing them with extra help in their mathematics , or the opportunity to make up lost ground in CDT — is generally frowned upon . |
| 30 | Cut all the vegetables to make up 4 kebabs . |