Example sentences of "[adv] make up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 2 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 3 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 4 | He did not attempt to remember all the features that together make up a face . |
| 5 | Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment . |
| 6 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 7 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 8 | In S/Z the codes are more like ways of speaking that together make up the discourse . |
| 9 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 10 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 11 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |
| 12 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 13 | In order to explain this excess radiation additional inputs of energy to Jupiter from beyond the planet have been considered , but none seem anywhere near large enough to make up the difference . |
| 14 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 15 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 17 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 18 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 19 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 20 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 21 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 22 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 23 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 24 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 25 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 26 | Mature students also make up the Evening Programme , which was given a major boost at the end of the year , by winning the highest award in the UK under the UFC 's scheme to promote flexible teaching . |
| 27 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 28 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 29 | This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast . |
| 30 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |