Example sentences of "[adv] make up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In S/Z the codes are more like ways of speaking that together make up the discourse . |
| 6 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 11 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 12 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 21 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 22 | This meant that state pensions would be reduced , but the private scheme must then guarantee to at least make up the difference . |
| 23 | ( ii ) Again make up the volume to 1 nil with MEM , expel into a conical glass centrifuge tube , and centrifuge for 5 min at about 150 g at room temperature . |
| 24 | Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries . |
| 25 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 26 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |