Example sentences of "made [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 2 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 3 | An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation . |
| 4 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 5 | The Tokugawa confirmed their hold on power by a complex structure of physical , political and economic controls over the several hundred local lords ( daimyo ) whose domains ( han ) made up the rest of the country , the samurai ( warrior ) class who constituted their followers and the populace who resided within their territories . |
| 6 | It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away . |
| 7 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 8 | So you made up the rest ? |
| 9 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 10 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 11 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 12 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 13 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |
| 14 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 15 | The aim of the second Columbus video was to address the main issues raised by staff following the video and briefings which made up the March cascade . |
| 16 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 17 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 18 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 19 | Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders . |
| 20 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 21 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 22 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 23 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 24 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 25 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 26 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 27 | By the end of that day the Allies had put 120 000 men ashore ; 60 000 American troops made up the assault force on the western beaches of Normandy , nicknamed Utah and Omaha . |
| 28 | He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 30 | Jane made up the basket for the bridesmaid from a sweet and innocent mixture of soft pink roses , sweet peas ( the pink and mauve ‘ Painted Lady ’ and the blue ‘ Countess Cadogan ’ ) , small sprays of pink larkspur , pink marguerites and the miniature Victorian gladiolus ‘ The Bride ’ . |