Example sentences of "[conj] make [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 2 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 3 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 4 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 5 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 6 | You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) . |
| 7 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 8 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 9 | Burglars entered a house in Harrison Terrace , Darlington , on Saturday evening and made off with a man 's gold watch valued at £100 and two bottles of whisky . |
| 10 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 11 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 12 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 13 | The community was not homogenous , but made up of a multitude of different groups with different attitudes and beliefs , while ‘ relations within the community , between different groups , are significantly outside the control of the police ’ . |
| 14 | Anti-matter has been known to exist since the Twenties but making enough for a propulsion unit ( one milligram ) would cost $100bn . |
| 15 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 16 | Captain Ferzenaar 's observations on the state of Krakatoa in early August , even though made only from a boat keeping to the upwind side , are particularly useful because they provide the last reliable account of the situation before the culminating events which ensued fifteen days later . |