Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | women still made up a small proportion of postgraduate IT students in 1983–84 — just 13 per cent ; |
| 2 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 3 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 4 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 5 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 6 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 7 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 8 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 9 | You have to say you ca n't do that I 'll make up a new game to play . |
| 10 | Therefore what is now called corporate this other income is the erm basically head office cost , there 's things like profits on from our captive insurance er dividends which we did n't have it in fact last year we did the year before from Blackpool land , small profits from the sale of some shares at Fair and other odds and ends which I erm really do n't make up a great deal . |
| 11 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 12 | Using a wedding bouquet as an example , and assuming that you are either attending the function or collecting the bouquet afterwards , you should make up a simple box , such as the one shown in the photograph . |
| 13 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 14 | Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds . |
| 15 | If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance . |
| 16 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 17 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 18 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 19 | We still need to make sure that there will be a goodly number participating so if there is any way you can make up a last minute table do n't hesitate to contact either Cecilia or Hilda . |
| 20 | Bidwell believes that a group of about 50 consultancies will make up the final membership . |
| 21 | ln this case , the attributes ‘ name ’ and part' will make up the composite key of the ORDER relation . |
| 22 | This contains the pattern of dots that , when printed on paper , will make up the actual character . |
| 23 | Thus , wherever one looks , one finds people engaged in the construction of the blocks that will make up the Palestinian state . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Mono-unsaturates ( MUFAs ) should make up the largest proportion of fats consumed . |
| 26 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
| 27 | But MDHC is optimistic it will make up the lost revenue by increased levels of freight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair ( |
| 30 | 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 . |