Example sentences of "[noun sg] make up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 2 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 3 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 4 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 5 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 8 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 11 | Natural selection was a process taking place within the whole breeding population making up the species , and if a division were to occur , the single original population must somehow be split into several distinct subpopulations that did not interbreed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | The next two hours were hectic , the Rose Bowl 's new owner struggling alone with the lunchtime rush while her assistant made up the orders that should have been done earlier . |
| 18 | They bond perfectly , without the need for 100mm slips next to the corner block to make up the half-bond . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A few letters and edited sections of four interviews with the artist make up the rest of the volume which has some interesting illustrations reproducing photographs of the artist and friends . |
| 23 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 26 | The preserved GMP can sometimes fall short of what you would have had from SERPS , and in these cases the state makes up the difference . |
| 27 | If his employer 's scheme has ‘ contracted out ’ , they must pay you half his guaranteed minimum pension , and the state makes up the difference . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A hall , lounge , kitchen , dining area , three bedrooms and bathroom/ w.c. make up the accommodation . |
| 30 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |