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 I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference !
4 You have to say you ca n't do that I 'll make up a new game to play .
5 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 .
6 The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 You could make up a whole story .
14 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 .
15 In the early twentieth century small business people ( the self-employed and shopkeepers ) made up a greater proportion of the working population than they did by 1971 .
16 To find out more about this I recently made up a small collection of questions on percentages .
17 who has been with Enterprise Engineering Services since day one , made up a new section and welded it in with great success !
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population .
21 Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households .
22 But just one product , a heart drug called Tenormin , made up a third of its drugs sales last year , and this treatment faces new competition .
23 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 .
24 Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’
25 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 .
26 ‘ 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 . ’
27 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 ?
28 This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents .
29 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 .
30 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
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