Example sentences of "make up [art] " in BNC.

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1 One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle .
2 Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture .
3 But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ?
4 Prepare the ground as already described , then make up a mix of 1 cement to 5 sand , with a minimum of water .
5 The two fets make up a high input-impedance differential pair with unity gain and over 10MHz bandwidth , which maintains linearity at low charging currents and at high frequencies up to 18MHz .
6 Today they make up a sad string of tarnished beads , from Bombay , Calcutta and Rangoon to Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) , Hanoi and Canton .
7 I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths .
8 Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub .
9 The Hatfield study found an uncritical expectation that returning women workers — women already make up a substantial part of small firm employment — would fill the gap left by young people .
10 Reassembling , say , all the designs for all the parts which make up a jet engine can be a time-consuming task on a relational database .
11 The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack .
12 The black leader says he will accept the Number Two nomination from any Democrat , but many Jews , who make up a good third of New York 's Democratic voters , dislike Jackson intensely for his support of the Palestinian cause and past reference to New York as ‘ Hymietown ’ .
13 Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition .
14 Contemporary dance , comedy , cabaret , pantomime and drama make up a packed schedule .
15 With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system .
16 Although these various studies have demonstrated that TV can be acquired other than sexually , as with gonorrhoea , such cases probably make up a very small minority of the total .
17 Oil production will fall by about 5% to make up 26% of total production while coal production will increase by 60%to make up a proportion of energy production similar to 1983 .
18 You could actually shorten this still further and , each time you make up a ten , cross it out and put 1 .
19 So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen .
20 The conclusions are based , as they have to be , on the smaller bits of behaviour that make up a given style .
21 Make up a pamphlet giving information about it , to show that you have knowledge of the product concerned .
22 Write a letter to a hotel ( make up a suitable name or choose one that advertises in your local paper ) enquiring about a holiday for two adults and two children .
23 Make up a bed according to standard procedure , for a postoperative thyroidectomy patient .
24 For example , the objective ‘ make up a bed , according to standard procedure ’ draws on general standards in that waterproof pillow-covers and light bedding would be required , and local standards for bed making , whether that means a ‘ general tucking-in all round ’ or ‘ all corners perfectly rectangular and with the top sheet turned over 32.5 cms ’ .
25 The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise .
26 The packaging and product name usually make up a hefty part of that cost .
27 An additional consequence of this narrow definition has been an emphasis and preoccupation with the chemical and reactive sequences leading to signal generation , with little or no attention given to the materials that make up a biosensor .
28 Make up a thickish paste from polycell or other wallpaper paste .
29 A curious mix of tried-and-tested subgames that look pretty damn poor on their own , but make up a reasonably playable package .
30 When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams .
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