Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 2 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 3 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 4 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 5 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 8 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 9 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 10 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 11 | The waiter placed her coffee down on one of the small tables with a flourish , then whisked another chair from an empty table to make up the numbers . |
| 12 | The neck is ( you guessed it ) mahogany , again of reasonable quality , and all of one piece , save for an extra block making up the traditionally-pointed heel . |
| 13 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 14 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 15 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |
| 16 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 17 | the main vertical stroke making up a type character . |
| 18 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her groping hand made out the outlines of a fully-clothed man , who was floating face downwards . |
| 21 | A. Then there 's all the more reason to make out a covenant . |
| 22 | A large fold-down flap makes up a double bed , a small flap fulfils a dual purpose as cupboard door and table . |
| 23 | People who are in one particular workplace and that workplace makes up the branch , then it 's clear from the sort of jobs that they do which section they should be in . |
| 24 | One group , represented by nearly 30 brooches , mostly from Kent , was characterised by the care and precision of the design and laying out , the notched ridge making up the designs , the well-made and neat niello bands and garnet inlaid cells , and the carefully carved animal and geometric ornament , with sharp tops to the ridges . |
| 25 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 26 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 27 | You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own . |
| 28 | ‘ The battle ’ hovers over the individual actions like in incorporeal cloud , distinct from them , but at the same time making up a surface of their meaning-effect , a simulacrum that brings the event into being at the moment when language and event coincide . |
| 29 | The one order , several families and many species that are now unique to the Oriental Region make up a strange and fascinating collection of little-known animals . |
| 30 | The strength of the HNC/HND system of group awards needs to be reinforced by an additional form of certification to recognise success in each unit making up the group . |