Example sentences of "[verb] make up their [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand he agreed that the Americans could not risk the destruction of their own forces in Britain by a pre-emptive Soviet strike or allow a major part of their bomber force to remain earth-bound while British ministers tried to make up their minds .
2 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment .
3 Possibly the solution is to fix accounting reference dates for those companies choosing to make up their accounts to the end of the month with fewer than 31 days to , say , the third day of the following month and take regular advantage of seven day variation of actual accounting date from accounting reference date allowed by s 223 .
4 If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind .
5 To put the record straight , I inadvertently misplaced the team sheet sent by Clansford and , to meet the printer 's deadline I was forced to make up their team off the top of my head .
6 Once the Prime Minister and a few senior ministers had made up their minds , it then achieved what senior civil servants call ‘ momentum ’ .
7 But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife .
8 Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened .
9 That issue is not one on which the Government have made up their mind , and all suggestions will be sensibly considered .
10 If the opinion polls are right , at least 55% of those who have made up their minds will say Yes this time , which would be a larger share than in France 's referendum last year .
11 MPs will start debating these issues on the 17 of this month , two weeks before members of the old party have to make up their minds about whether they want to join the new ship .
12 But the rest have to make up their minds soon , because portable computer owners are short of good software for their computers .
13 The principle advantage to the insurer conferred by Court proceedings is that ultimately it provides a final date by which the dilatory pursuer and his advisers have to make up their minds .
14 WC apps : 12 Winners : 1934 , 1938 , 1982 Runners-up : 1970 The most strongly fancied host nation since Argentina in 1978 , Italy still need to make up their minds about Baggio and the best striker to partner Vialli .
15 Both the Welsh and the English Ministers have managed to make up their minds on it .
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