Example sentences of "make up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 2 | Now you 've got ta make up four questions . |
| 3 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 6 | Coceres , who had begun the day three shots behind overnight leader David Gilford , made up one shot on the European Ryder Cup man by going out in 33 . |
| 7 | But the last day was wrecked by fierce , gusting winds , and Venturi limped round in 80 , while Jack Burke , a veteran pro , made up eight shots with a 71 to win . |
| 8 | In 1985 , consumption of tuna in the US was 1.5 kg ( 3.3 lb ) per person , of which white meat tuna ( yellowfin ) made up 0.3 kg ( 0.7 lb ) . |
| 9 | Here 's the peasants The gentry made up three percent of the population in the countryside . |
| 10 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |
| 11 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 12 | Make up two sentences to show if she is to be told or not — watch them as you say them — hear them in your mind 's ear . |
| 13 | So , if you have a total of twenty guests , make up two sets of ten letters as follows A B C D E F G H I J These should be placed upon firm card and be clearly visible . |
| 14 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 15 | Iron and steel make up one quarter of Luxembourg 's national income . |
| 16 | Make up one 125g ( 4.4oz ) pack vegetable burger mix , following the directions on the packet . |
| 17 | Notice that the conditions on the metric components and derivatives only make up nine equations , whereas there are ten degrees of freedom . |
| 18 | Then the following sets of components make up three tensors ( A , B , C ) of rank 2 : while has rank 3 . |
| 19 | These can be scored as full points , or as combination of full or half-points which , taken together , make up three points . |
| 20 | Of this , undamaged bottles and containers make up 200,000 tonnes . |
| 21 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 22 | The middle peasants owned twenty five percent which meant that the , the poor peasants , making up seventy percent owned just twenty five percent of the land . |
| 23 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |
| 24 | Cut all the vegetables to make up 4 kebabs . |
| 25 | You will initially need enough to make up 150 gallons at S.G. 1.021 . |
| 26 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 27 | I 've only got to make up three hours |
| 28 | I 've got to make up three hours |
| 29 | I 've got to make up three hours instead of four |