Example sentences of "[adv] [be] making [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 2 | I 'll give them the real Henry Farr , and he wo n't just be making witty little remarks about the London orbital motorway either . |
| 3 | SOUTHPORT will not be making wholesale squad changes as the Haig Avenue club prepare for their move into the GMV Conference next season . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Our position is that we will not be making public statements about who we may or may not be putting forward for the mayor and deputy mayor 's position . ’ |
| 5 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 6 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 7 | Other big firms , some of which are also informally relaxing their rules on unpaid leave for juniors , have also been making large-scale job cuts . |
| 8 | My own inquiry into God will try to make sense of the ‘ meaning ’ theist position , but in doing so I shall also be making clear — since they encounter one another on common ground — what the view of the ‘ meaning ’ atheist might be . |
| 9 | Officers would also be making house-to-house inquiries , said a Hertfordshire Police spokesman . |
| 10 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 11 | This had been demonstrated by the rise in US imports of manufactured goods , which rocketed by 27 per cent in 1972 following a 20 per cent rise in 1971 : ‘ it was evident that industry abroad was making major adjustments and marketing efforts to enlarge its share of the US market ’ ( Gilbert , 1980 , p. 105 ) . |
| 12 | The big difference between it and option one is that the government would not be us ing social-security receipts to reduce its outstanding debt but would instead be making multi-trillion-dollar investment decisions in the private economy . |
| 13 | I have recently been making sculpted furniture , using a variety of power carving methods for fast timber removal . |