Example sentences of "of making [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governing body delegates the task of making broad recommendations and the task of day-to-day management to the head . |
| 2 | Under partnership law , information known to one partner is imputed to all the partners , laying firms open to charges of making misleading statements when a Chinese wall impeded information . |
| 3 | Electrolytic production of alkalis and improved methods of making sulphuric acid soon followed . |
| 4 | That ‘ Mr Lavoisier had found a method of making inflammable air ( hydrogen ) for a halfpenny per cubic foot ’ , a fifth of the usual price , attracted Priestley 's attention . |
| 5 | In less demanding times , it is often argued , they should be capable of making healthy returns . |
| 6 | This has the double advantage of making available notes between the bottom note E in the seventh position of the B flat tenor trombone and the fundamental B flat and also providing shifts alternative to those found awkward among higher harmonics . |
| 7 | A company is in the process of making compulsory redundancies . |
| 8 | AVCs are a very attractive way of making extra savings for retirement for two special reasons . |
| 9 | The only principle abandoned in 1857 was the propriety of making legal remedies for marriage difficulties available for the aristocracy while withholding them from the growing upper middle class . |
| 10 | For Harriet Finlay Johnson , knowledge of the objective world was of prime importance and she developed a dramatic process of making factual knowledge more interesting . |
| 11 | Nor was she anxious to open her heart to Padre Jorge , who seemed on too intimate terms with Dom João and Dona Marguerita for her liking , and who had a habit of making sly jokes to members of the family which barely preserved the secrecy of the confessional . |
| 12 | Another way of making associative links is by using the heading and sub-heading techniques of chapter 4 , and especially by drawing the pattern diagram showing relationships between the facets of an aspect of study . |
| 13 | There is a need to proceed cautiously regarding the possibility of making out-of-context transfers to different social and economic milieus . |
| 14 | It accuses 22 companies — most of them in Taiwan — of making counterfeit Apple computers . |
| 15 | The visit will include a brief history of the forge and a live demonstration of making decorative items such as rams ' heads and owls for pokers and intricate scroll work , using traditional techniques . |
| 16 | Some part-timers regard Koi dealing as a way of making easy money . |
| 17 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 18 | Many commentators would now agree that the marginal costs of making fuller use of existing facilities outweigh the economies of scale to be obtained from their concentration . |
| 19 | The case submitted by the DoE was that ‘ the purpose of making fuller use of SDOs would not be to make any general relaxation in development control but to stimulate planned development in acceptable locations , and speed up the planning process ’ . |
| 20 | The grant of Alemannia , where none of Charles 's half-brothers had a prime interest , was the least provocative way of making reasonable provision for Charles 's future . |
| 21 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 22 | Developing the food side of the business was a way of making better use of the Cadbury brand . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the dangers which lie within the social charter of making European industry uncompetitive in relation to Japanese industry and to others . |
| 24 | A subsidiary aim of the project is to make available for discussion the methodology of making sociological inferences from such texts . |
| 25 | Our efforts in data-gathering are to maximise our chances of making right choices and decisions . |
| 26 | They 've also got a song called ‘ Creep ’ ( the next single , natch ) , which has a habit of making innocent bystanders go , ‘ Jeez , what the f— is THAT ? ’ |
| 27 | The National Union of Teachers accused Mr Patten of making unsubstantiated allegations which merely emphasised the Government 's failure to get schools to opt out . |
| 28 | Anthony Dew , of the Rocking Horse Shop , introduces the first principles of making rocking horses by carving the head |
| 29 | If the DH is 500 ft , then at 700 ft/min it would be reached in approximately 2 minutes which would give you a reasonable chance of making visual contact . |
| 30 | Judge Geoffrey Grigson rebuked Lady Dawn Kennedy , 32 , after David Waters , prosecuting her on three charges of making bogus rape allegations , pointed out her conduct . |