Example sentences of "[adv] make up the [noun] " 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 Malt , roast and flakes together make up the Guinness grist .
5 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 .
6 In S/Z the codes are more like ways of speaking that together make up the discourse .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 ( 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 .
11 Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries .
12 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 .
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