Example sentences of "make [adv prt] a [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 | You have to say you ca n't do that I 'll make up a new game to play . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 12 | Diplomats believe Mr Sevan tried to accelerate the decision on who would make up an interim council to replace Mr Najibullah . |
| 13 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 14 | To find out more about this I recently made up a small collection of questions on percentages . |
| 15 | who has been with Enterprise Engineering Services since day one , made up a new section and welded it in with great success ! |
| 16 | The Prado ‘ Virgin and Saints ’ , the Kelvingrove ‘ Woman taken in Adultery ’ and the ‘ Concert Champetre ’ made up a coherent early Titian , and their juxtaposition with the Antwerp ‘ Jacopo Pesaro presented to St Peter ’ — so often , as here , dated c. 1506 — eliminates a central confusion in the reconstruction of his early work , for it must be post-1511 . |
| 17 | Consort Hotels decided to drop activity breaks , which made up a tiny part of its market , and rebranded the product as Consort Freedom Breaks , with improved rail-inclusive packages covered by a Trust account . |
| 18 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 19 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 20 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 21 | ‘ There is still a long way to go , though , and nobody at this club forgets that , two seasons ago , Aberdeen made up a ten-point deficit and took Rangers to the last day of the season before they ( Rangers ) won the title . ’ |
| 22 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 23 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 24 | Rate support and local authority influence was expected to improve the often low standards of denominational schools , which made up a high proportion of existing elementary schools . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , due to the higher incidence of physical illness among elderly people , nurses without specialist mental health qualification made up a high proportion of the complement of staff |
| 26 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 27 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 29 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 30 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |