Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 6 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
| 7 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 15 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 16 | These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns . |
| 17 | Expensive-looking loafers , preferably made out of an endangered species , remain essential for any aspiring manager . |
| 18 | That will be the second biggest rights issue ever made in in the UK , lagging only behind the ill-fated BP issue in 1987 . |
| 19 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 20 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Similarly , a motor car is a system which takes the driver and passengers from point A to point B. It is also made up of a number of sub-systems — the braking system , the heating system , the gearing system and so on . |
| 23 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 24 | The thieves also made off with a Stihl chainsaw valued at £150 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
| 27 | A machine that is customarily made up of a CPU , disk drive , input devices , output devices and memory . |
| 28 | The idea is that large , complex systems are often made up of a single , simple shape repeated over and again . |
| 29 | Loosely-woven textured varieties are often made up into a heavier type of unlined sheer curtain . |
| 30 | But it 's actually now made out as an adoption of the dog . |