Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 2 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 3 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 4 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 5 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
| 6 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
| 7 | During the Cultural Revolution , Mao had attempted to eliminate this ‘ new elite ’ , largely made up of the children of urban intellectuals and well-placed party officials . |
| 8 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 9 | Epogam capsules contained 500 mg of evening primrose oil , largely made up of the n6 series EFAs linoleic ( 321 mg ) and gamma-linolenic acid ( 40 mg ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 11 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 12 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 13 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 14 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 15 | That will be the second biggest rights issue ever made in in the UK , lagging only behind the ill-fated BP issue in 1987 . |
| 16 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 17 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 18 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 19 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 20 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
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| 22 | Cleansing and re-applying make-up can irritate the skin if you 've been fully made up during the day . |
| 23 | It will be deducted from the loss and payment then made up to the policy limit . |
| 24 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 25 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 26 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 27 | In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals . |
| 28 | The bed was crisply made up with the be-frilled white broderie anglaise bed-linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie-Christine and Jacques . |
| 29 | On the way to Mrs Zamzam 's land , I looked across the same Lebanese border from the Israeli side and could actually make out in the far distance Mrs Zamzam 's camp at Rashidiyeh inside Lebanon . |
| 30 | The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |