Example sentences of "[pers pn] be making [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
| 2 | This time I was making hot pants and rainbow striped jumpers . |
| 3 | I was making good time when my eye was caught by a small , wooden sign , on which was written , ‘ Harristown Dolmen ’ . |
| 4 | I was making heavy weather of it but dared not rest for the cold . |
| 5 | ‘ 'E was making funny noises , ’ the maid offered importantly , and , pleased at the instant attention this won her , added , ‘ Like when me ma 's 'aving another . ’ |
| 6 | I mention those figures , the need for a large membership is self evident and I know that you are making tremendous efforts to increase that membership . |
| 7 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 8 | The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way . |
| 9 | And by encouraging wide participation in Compact programmes such as Work Experience , mock interviews , teacher secondment into industry and employer secondment you are making available to your colleagues a uniquely valuable staff development experience . |
| 10 | You are making good local contracts , which should be making you feel prosperous . |
| 11 | This supplement is designed as a temporary nutritional prop while you are making dietary adjustments . |
| 12 | It is all too easy to assume that if you improve your performance by 5% a year , you are making satisfactory progress . |
| 13 | When one calculates , for example , the beginning of the universe , using the methods you described , surely you 're making great assumptions about the laws of physics not having changed ? |
| 14 | I find them a constant worry when they 're sleeping cos you 're making sure whether they 're still breathing |
| 15 | You 're making puerile excuses for yourself , little lad . ’ |
| 16 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 17 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 18 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 19 | She was making good progress and was well up to standard |
| 20 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 21 | " I did n't realize she was making free with me , " Patrick grinned at the thought . |
| 22 | She was making hard work of plucking the goose . |
| 23 | Even though she was making light of it , Charlie could n't mistake the fire that animated her when she reached his entries for the final night of Christine Ashdown 's brief career . |
| 24 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
| 25 | Technologies such as ‘ Silver II ’ , for the destruction of organic wastes , are also attracting international interest as an alternative to incineration , and we are making good progress with contracts for aspects of waste management in Japan . |
| 26 | Sorry it was another long hard meeting but we are making good progress and I think by the end of our next one when we 've revised most of the procedures we 'll be well placed . |
| 27 | They 'd start er you know one man gen mentioned er that when we get married in church erm we are making sacred vows you know we start with God but then we get busy with our living and our jobs and having our families and then somehow we forget about God and we we try to go on without him . |
| 28 | However , as my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon so lucidly explained , we are making great progress in reducing those waiting lists . |
| 29 | So we 've got to the situation then where erm we are making sure that nobody is gon na put us in a position whereby they can cause us problems . |
| 30 | We are making sure that employment training is making its full contribution to the aim and guarantee groups for the long-term unemployed . |