Example sentences of "[be] making the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but you see , you 're making the same mistake again ! ’ |
| 2 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 3 | In 1991 , we should not be making the poorest in society the scapegoats for a policy that even every Tory Member admits is dead , is dying and should be abolished . |
| 4 | On a less arrogant interpretation , he seems to be making the reasonable point that the appreciative stance is less likely to overlook both positive and negative aspects of deviance simply because it is more open to the acceptance of both possibilities . |
| 5 | Over the next 2 days and 2 weekends in October , villagers will be making the most of their local fruit . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , he was very good value and he likes the show , but he was very worried that we 'd be making the obvious sexy Cecil innuendos … |
| 7 | Long has great hopes of Clark , who will be making the English Schools youth 1500 metres championship his main target this summer . |
| 8 | He started to blame himself — he must be making the wrong decisions , not treating his customers well enough , not keeping a sharp enough eye on profit margins . |
| 9 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
| 10 | ‘ I want him to live forever but I know I 'm making the right decision even if he dies . |
| 11 | I could n't help but laugh when she replied : ‘ Oh , do n't worry , I 'm making the best of a bad job ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 13 | We have so far been making the simplifying assumption that it is clear , in all cases , what the original text consists of . |
| 14 | Sometimes the same bank that has been making the public loan to the government also stores the overseas private deposits from private nationals . |
| 15 | In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 16 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
| 17 | Are you sure you are making the right decision ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The majority of private companies have very similar problems , ’ he says — they can not afford a ‘ high class ’ finance director and need an outside accountant to make sure they are making the right strategic decisions . |
| 19 | ‘ They are making the right noises about providing them , and each year the budget gets bigger . |
| 20 | Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N6827C and Tora Tora film Zeke /Harvard IV N15798 have been sold to Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection in New Zealand , and are making the long journey ‘ down under ’ by sea . |
| 21 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 22 | Erm I am confident that Eurofighter are grasping the thorny problem now in a very businesslike way and er are making the individual partner companies fully accountable for the systems for which they have design responsibility and this again is a aspect of the renegotiation of the contract which we think is very important and we 're determined that er this will happen . |
| 23 | For that reason , we are making the best use of married quarters to ensure that people are not forced into such temporary accommodation . |
| 24 | Campaigning groups have served to shine a spotlight on many of the world 's diminishing rainforests and are making the guilty West sit up and take note . |
| 25 | The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them . |
| 26 | We are attempting to investigate the influences that act on girls and women when they are making the crucial ‘ O ’ Level , ‘ A ’ Level and college and career choices , and which channel them away from research jobs in hard science . |
| 27 | The dynamical equation , a modification of ( 15.21 ) , is which , since we are making the Boussinesq approximation , becomes |
| 28 | Each time you go through the text you practice the discourse structure , as the structure , or " grid " , stays the same while you are making the other changes . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot more women are making the conscious decision not to get married , for whatever reason . |
| 30 | If , in spite of these precautions , your recordings still have an unpleasantly boomy quality , you will then need to apply some tone correction , either while you are making the original recording or at a later editing-transfer stage . |