Example sentences of "make up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list for the Labour Group will be made up each Friday morning and passed to Jean Speedie by lunchtime . |
| 2 | Since the height of the crisis in the early 1980s , living standards have risen again but many of those living on the margins have not made up lost ground . |
| 3 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 4 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 6 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 7 | And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it , I thought it was one we 'd made up junior school . |
| 8 | What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since . |
| 9 | ‘ I should never have made up those stories about her , I know , and I 'm sorry , darling . |
| 10 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 11 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 12 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've made up some time , ’ he informed her . |
| 14 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 15 | Medical immigration from the European Community and elsewhere , which has previously made up any shortage of local graduates , is stable and unlikely to increase . |
| 16 | British invisible foreign earnings from financial services were the largest in the world and for long had made up any deficit on visible trade . |
| 17 | They are found at various points on plants , including fruits as on those of Crescentia spp. and in 15 other genera of Bignoniaceae , and the nectar may make up substantial parts of the ant diet as in the case of the extrafloral nectar of Caularthron bilamellatum ( Orchidaceae ) of Central America , which comprises up to 48% of the associated ants ' diet at some times of the year . |
| 18 | The skills required to successfully design and make up complex documents are not learnt overnight . |
| 19 | Now you 've got ta make up four questions . |
| 20 | It is felt that allowing students more than one resit is too generous , unnecessary when they can often make up lost ground in subsequent terms , and allows the examinations office to timetable all resits in a single block at the beginning of examination week . |
| 21 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 22 | Typically between 25 percent and 30 percent of the funeral bill will make up such fees . |
| 23 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 24 | You could then make up some sentences in which AH could be compared with another long vowel , say AW , like this : |
| 25 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 26 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 27 | We 've been approached by er , the local county who wish to er , make up some radio from the er agency . |
| 28 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 29 | At Bristol and Liverpool slavers did make up significant proportions of the merchant fleets . |
| 30 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |