Example sentences of "are making [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In most of the factories on trading estates people are making small products using special skills , such as clothes , televisions , sports goods and packaged foods . |
2 | Although it is a Kunsthalle rather than a collection , Hamish Fulton 's wall text ‘ Rock Fall Echo Dust ’ decorates the entrance hall and Richard Wentworth and Swiss artist , Anne Sauser-Hall , are making small sculptures to be installed discreetly on the stairwell . |
3 | Most have a core of solid businesses that ensure that at least parts of the firm are making serious money . |
4 | Some community services are making serious efforts to provide more resources to the unemployed , hampered though they are by limits on local government expenditure . |
5 | Other European countries , and Japan , are making similar noises . |
6 | Birmingham and Sheffield are making similar plans . |
7 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
8 | They too have come to accept temporary working and , by showing concern for their conditions of employment , are making temporary workers one of the main targets of their recruitment drives . |
9 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
10 | He was at least right about that — and right about the Government who are making such promises . |
11 | Britain and several other Western countries are making good progress in curbing CFC usage . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ( 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 . |
15 | ones who are making black puddings ! |
16 | It was excepted that that , in a lot of cases wives were expected to give their jobs up when they 're married , but I see now the mo , my er , not my own children but my young nieces and nephews , the men , th the husbands are present at the birth of their children , they are enchanted , they are making fantastic fathers because they are taking responsibilities ! |
17 | ‘ You know , Sir John , if we find nothing this afternoon then I agree , we should record verdicts of suicide and murder and leave this matter alone for we are making little progress . ’ |
18 | Durham county council 's deputy leader , Coun. Bob Pendlebury , said : ‘ We are making immediate representations to the Government , but if we do not get a favourable response , we will have to cut back our education budget by up to £3m. to find the extra money . |
19 | And I take the view that the Unity Development Plans for Leeds and Bradford do tend to me to suggest that there is the ability to meet an increasing amount of need in within their own areas and that that should be reflected in a continually reducing er export if I can call it that , to North Yorkshire , and this morning we heard from Cleveland that Cleveland are making gallant efforts to er to er retain their economic er viability by retaining their population . |
20 | Well , I think they are making great inroads now into catching a lot of people who er simply refuse to pay er their television licence , but of course there are a lot more who er are still escaping the net . |
21 | In other UDC areas local authorities and UDC Boards are working together to ensure that there is some balance to redevelopment , and officials are making great efforts to reassure residents and distance themselves from the LDDC experience . |
22 | Many European cities , many European cities are making great efforts , Strasbourg , Brussels , Barcelona , leading cities within Europe . |
23 | However , as my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon so lucidly explained , we are making great progress in reducing those waiting lists . |
24 | However , he lists some areas where he feels that the aesthetic and the linguistic are making tentative advances towards each other and suggests grounds for hope ( and research ) . |
25 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
26 | In the case of profoundly handicapped births , life expectancy will probably be limited anyway ; if it is not , the doctors and parents are , in effect , destroying the life of the baby concerned because they are making subjective judgements about what kind of a life it will lead . |
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 | A hundred and seventy soldiers are making final preperations to leave Wiltshire for a tour of duty in former Yugoslavia . |
29 | University lecturers in the humanities are making increasing use of computers for teaching purposes ; but this too lies outside my scope . |
30 | Also television documentaries are making increasing use of archive film from the stores of national and regional film archives . |