Example sentences of "making [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our principal concern here is the delegation of decision making down the hierarchy . |
| 2 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |
| 3 | The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage . |
| 4 | THIS expanded network of popular committees and institutions making up the Unified leadership is infused by tens of thousands of activists who belong to , or identify with , the different factions of the PLO . |
| 5 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 6 | Waterways , a watering system designed for them , consists of a perforated funnel inserted when making up the basket so that its mouth is just above the compost level . |
| 7 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
| 8 | All I will be doing [ at the Masters ] is making up the numbers . ’ |
| 9 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 10 | Fossil fuel , used for stationary and mobile energy sources , and nuclear energy are discussed in some detail , making up the bulk of the book . |
| 11 | Thus within one scene we have : status , contrast , formality and waiting one 's turn making up the ‘ game ’ . |
| 12 | The Brewery advanced £800 to finance this at 5% , the sale of the land below the 6th ( £325 ) making up the difference . |
| 13 | The directions for making up the solutions for patient use are defined quite clearly in the 6th edition 248 footnote . |
| 14 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 15 | Accepting then that the material making up the mantle can behave as a viscous liquid , this raises an interesting possibility . |
| 16 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 17 | The first six are all silicate minerals ; the last are also-rans , making up the 1 per cent non-silicate content of volcanic rocks , and are almost always oxides of iron and titanium . |
| 18 | Every cindery boulder making up the jumbled chaotic surface is loose , irregularly angular in shape , and covered in razor-sharp protrusions . |
| 19 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 20 | The failure of ecological aspects of small mammal faunas to predict predator species leads to the consideration of modifications to the bones making up the faunal assemblage . |
| 21 | Following the discussion made earlier , in making up the examples , care was taken to eliminate any action where there was a clear role-asymmetry between the characters . |
| 22 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 23 | Making up the slings of timber ready for Tiny Bennion 's crane to pick up and dump on the wharf . |
| 24 | The individual amino acids making up the primary chain themselves have a hand , as I mentioned earlier . |
| 25 | This way , though there are not many pixels making up the image , they are at least small . |
| 26 | 1982 , Academic Press ) , the deposits making up the platforms there accumulated naturally as sea levels gradually rose between about 4000 and 2500 years ago . |
| 27 | The dynamics of the Galaxy is considered and he discusses the evolution of the various features making up the Galaxy . |
| 28 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 29 | The four volumes of this work are to be accompanied soon by a further five , the whole series presented as making up the definitive study of of quantum theory in an historical context . |
| 30 | It 's made from one piece of mahogany , with no extra bits making up the headstock or heel , and it 's a superb piece of work . |