Example sentences of "[adv] making [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 2 | Although a fuller account would include a detailed analysis of all sources of income , the plain fact is that by far the largest source of pensioners ' income is social security , comprising 60 per cent , with the retirement pension alone making up 49 per cent of pensioner income . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll start now , ’ he vowed , suddenly making up his mind . |
| 4 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 5 | Well I 've spoken to Keith and Kim from B-TEC about some of this and er things are not as clear-cut as people are perhaps making out . |
| 6 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 7 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 8 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |
| 9 | While Carl Fogarty took the big race of the day the Superbike , young Dunlop scooped up the smaller classes by landing both 250cc races as well as the 125cc , thus making up for his disappointment of last year when he scored only one win against Phillip McCallen 's five . |
| 10 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 11 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 12 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 13 | His doubts only increased when he performed another job , midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play . |
| 14 | I refer to Spitting Image ( ITV ) , which last time round was held in check until the polls had safely closed , but this time was allowed an outing on Wednesday while the electorate were still technically making up their minds . |
| 15 | Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang . |
| 16 | While Keegan is still making up his mind on players some of them are already in the shop window . |
| 17 | He made a promising reappearance at Ascot last month , gradually making up ground under top weight of 11st 10lbs , to finish within 1 lengths of Latent Talent . |
| 18 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 19 | Heath told police who arrested him : ‘ That old bitch is always making up stories about me . ’ |
| 20 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 21 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 22 | I 'm really making up bits now , making the picture look how I want it to look — dark on light , light on dark — not forgetting to look in the mirror ! |
| 23 | Glaswegian clubbers were a bit slow at first to take advantage of the late opening hours , says Stuart , but are now making up for lost time . |
| 24 | Dimly making out figures , he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground . |
| 25 | ‘ He was 'ere making up to an honest travellin' lass . ’ |
| 26 | Johnny Come Lately , the man to whom the Home Office refused a work permit in 1984 , was now fast making up ground on the inside . |
| 27 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 28 | I thought , and went on making out the list . |
| 29 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 30 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |