Example sentences of "[conj] make up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 2 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 3 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 4 | 3 Starting Either use the Starter sentence , or make up one of your own . |
| 5 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 6 | Traditionally Christmas and snow have always gone together — and even though Safeway ca n't guarantee the weather , it does have a delectable , fully iced Christmas cake which should more than make up for it ! |
| 7 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 8 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 9 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 10 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 11 | Evidence that the SCN are the body clock can be summarized as follow : ( 1 ) Rhythmic electrical activity can be recorded from the nerve cells that make up the SCN and this rhythm has a period of about 24 hours . |
| 12 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 13 | However , 30 June 1989 saw the Battalion deployed on its biennial AMF(L) exercise to Denmark , hard at work alongside the other armies that make up the AMF(L) . |
| 14 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 15 | Classic styles in mouthwatering colours are the ingredients that make up Great Plains — a new range from French Connection . |
| 16 | The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus . |
| 17 | Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar . |
| 18 | These are the four countries that make up contemporary Panama . |
| 19 | Another feature of dolphin skin which could offset turbulence and accelerate movement is a system of dermal ridges ( similar to those that make up our fingerprints ) which are found beneath the skin on the back and flanks of most cetaceans , and seem to correspond to the patterns of water flow . |
| 20 | In diagrams of the complicated networks of shareholdings that make up these groups , banks are usually placed in the centre . |
| 21 | I understand life , and the family ties that make up almost all of it , much less than I ever did . |
| 22 | Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions . |
| 23 | Its usefulness will depend on the extent to which your research focuses on general properties rather than on specific properties of the chemicals that make up real polymer solutions . |
| 24 | The aim is to provide a series of acceptable solutions which meet the needs of the various constituencies that make up the organisation . |
| 25 | Some earlier writers have considered that the characteristic groups that make up populations could be selected as such . |
| 26 | It is easy to imagine them combining together to form complex organic materials , of the kind that make up modern living tissue . |
| 27 | ( There are extremely instructive comparisons to be made between the films that make up Manvell 's ‘ Miscellany ’ and the ‘ pantheon ’ of directors listed in the first , 1962 , issue of Movie — the changes are an eloquently stark illustration of the massive reorientation of British film culture . ) |
| 28 | The needle enters this space by passing between two of the lumbar vertebrae ( the lowest of the bones that make up the spine ) after the whole area has been infiltrated with local anaesthetic . |
| 29 | Having completed this basic indoctrination , the budding smallholder will know better the joys and frustrations , the rewards and risks , the freedom and the discipline that make up farming . |
| 30 | Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in . |