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

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1 The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received .
2 Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket .
3 Concern was expressed over the failure of Cala Homes to make up the roads to serve their new houses .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems .
7 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 .
8 And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight .
9 The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall .
10 Madeleine , however , had insisted he bring along a girl to make up a foursome and Primrose was the only girl available at the last minute .
11 Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss .
12 Parish churches have been told they will receive less money from investments made by the Church of England in property and businesses , and St Cuthbert 's is asking its congregation to start making ‘ realistic ’ donations to make up the shortfall .
13 Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ?
14 It was the custom of the train crews to make up the fish trains from empty stock located in the New Clee sidings , between Grimsby and Cleethorpes .
15 Permission was obtained from the APU and HMSO to make up a test of APU items for the purpose of comparing different samples participating in the project .
16 However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year .
17 That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal .
18 We order a further 1,000kg at £5/kg to make up the 3,000kg .
19 ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels .
20 He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road .
21 In Niemeyers , for example , the company language is English which is used for 70% of all non-Dutch communication ( with French and German each approximately 15% to make up the rest ) .
22 Choose freely from the calorie- and fibre-counted meals on the following pages to make up the remainder of your daily calorie and fibre total .
23 Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit .
24 The only thing , other thing is we 've been you know debating about the er stuff to make up the wax which we 'll have to go to Morrells by all , and get it sent here
25 We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine .
26 They bond perfectly , without the need for 100mm slips next to the corner block to make up the half-bond .
27 The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order .
28 Rather you should aim for 20% ( on the inches-per-gallon reckoning ) ; increase that gradually , over six months , to 50 per cent , and then allow natural growth rate to make up the difference .
29 You now have the necessary items to make up the patient 's stock bottle in the consulting room .
30 Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon .
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