Example sentences of "make [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |
| 2 | There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections . |
| 3 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 4 | And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " . |
| 5 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 6 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 7 | The four legs and four rails that will make up the seat-jointing section are cut oversize so that they can be cut in half . |
| 8 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 9 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 10 | Television therefore helped make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election campaign but not very interested in politics more generally . |
| 11 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 12 | Mono-unsaturates ( MUFAs ) should make up the largest proportion of fats consumed . |
| 13 | Cost £1.00 per person , Crosslink will make up the difference . |
| 14 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , wherever one looks , one finds people engaged in the construction of the blocks that will make up the Palestinian state . |
| 16 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 17 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 18 | Bidwell believes that a group of about 50 consultancies will make up the final membership . |
| 19 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 20 | Nevertheless if the patient is mentally and emotionally unaffected but has , for example , a pain somewhere , then the details of the pain will make up the whole case , or ‘ totality ’ as it is called , for which a similar remedy must be found . |
| 21 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 24 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 25 | They could make up the England rugby pack . ’ |
| 26 | Draconian spending cuts through a cap on welfare and other non-discretionary ( entitlement ) spending , which would lead to nearly £300bn worth of savings over five years , defence cuts , a domestic freeze and the taxpayer check-off which could result in a maximum of $50bn in spending cuts , would make up the shortfall created by his proposed tax incentives . |
| 27 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 28 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 29 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 30 | has come up with three sponsors to ‘ underwrite ’ half the costs of the show ( £200,000 ) Silhouette Eyewear , Vistech Redab property developers , and The Times and hope that a box office success will make up the balance . |