Example sentences of "[conj] making [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ( 3 ) The contract may limit liability to certain heads of damage : if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the refund of all payments made by the Buyer or if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the cost of repairing or making good the defects in the goods , provided that , if the cost of repair exceeds the contract price , we may at our option replace the goods or refund all payments made by the Buyer and such replacement or refund shall be in full satisfaction of all our liability under this contract . |
2 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
3 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
4 | In fact I think that making this a Court issue will deter some parents from seeking access to their children which is a very bad thing . |
5 | The tribunal itself need do nothing to further the appeal , other than making available the notes of evidence and the chairman 's record of the hearing . |
6 | Unesco was able to assure the societies of its continuing important service as coordinator between them and the Soprintendenze , also saving them 4% VAT , and making available an employee and its office in St Mark 's Square . |
7 | An excellent drill is to think in terms of rallying , with targets of 30 , 50 , 100 or whatever you think you are capable of doing — and making sure the ball lands between the service line and the baseline . |
8 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
9 | Put a lid on the saucepan and cook slowly for about one hour , stirring occasionally and making sure the chicken joints are turned every fifteen minutes or so . |
10 | Maria Candida ordered the following morning , and when Sara obeyed slipped the kirtle over her head , pulling the skirt down over her waist and making sure the bodice was not twisted on the girl 's white shoulders . |
11 | These are establishing analogues , integrating technologies , understanding uncertainties and making sure the right people are in the right place at the right time . |
12 | She then turned her attention to the food that needed to be cooked , placing it within easy reach of the barbecue , and making sure the necessary utensils for handling it were nearby . |
13 | And power lies in the files , in knowing , and making sure the knowledge can not be checked or shared . |
14 | For fax has now arrived with a vengeance , doubling its United Kingdom sales annually and making possible a world in which a businessman in Croydon may instantly replicate his A4 thoughts complete with illegible signature — upon desks in Hull , Hoboken or Hong Kong . |
15 | The latter would be the work of so many interchangeable ‘ hands ’ executing and making possible the designs of superordinate others . |
16 | A spiritual dimension is at work in all religions and constantly pushing and making uncomfortable the easy surrender to unspiritual and despiritualizing tendencies . |
17 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
18 | The forward pass through the network consists of repeating this procedure by adding the job time to the early start time and making this the early start time of the next job in sequence if no other preceding job has a later early finish . |
19 | The forward pass through the network consists of repeating this procedure by adding the job time to the early start time and making this the early start time of the next job in sequence if no other preceding job has a later early finish . |
20 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
21 | A Speaker takes charge of the Questions , so when a player lands on a Ballot Box they simply pick a number ( there are 120 questions for 50 , 216 questions for 25 ) and the Speaker asks questions ( giving clues if necessary but making sure no question is asked twice ) . |
22 | Document preparation systems based on mark-up ( such as LaTeX ) , while making explicit the crucial distinction between logical and physical structures of a document , are difficult for beginners to use , and provoke the frequent cry from those more interested in use than principle of ‘ why use this , it 's so much easier using [ my favourite word processor ] ’ . |
23 | A simple rule — To use when making good the Inbound Track is : QDM more than your required QDM … |
24 | However , the Minister must be careful when making such an argument . |
25 | This view informs every page of I.A. Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , where the critic is seen as making explicit the states of mind produced in the reader by the literary work . |
26 | The snags they sort out can be as simple as making sure a contractor understands plans properly to having to re-design equipment found to need modification when it is being installed . |
27 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |
28 | This affected BR 's plans to reduce costs and increase traffic by renewing its ageing fleet and investing in modern High Speed Trains ( see , e.g. , SCT 1983 : xvi ) , and was seen as making difficult the maintenance of even existing railway services . |