Example sentences of "making [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there are striking similarities between the two documents regarding the need to promote change while smoothing the process of adaptation , the 1979 report goes beyond its predecessor when it argues for trade union involvement in the decision making over technological change at an early stage through collective bargaining . |
| 2 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 3 | Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy . |
| 4 | The same is true of the second column — the two elements making up that column are getting closer together in value as P is raised to successively higher powers . |
| 5 | Making up that sort of money now that the Philippine Senate has sent them home is going to take some doing . |
| 6 | As Western governments struggle from decision to decision , making up instant policies as they react , the need is for vision and imagination : a willingness to think the previously unthinkable , to sort out in their minds what sort of Europe they would like to have created in 10 years ' time . |
| 7 | With voting in 11 states making up Super Tuesday , computers projected President George Bush an easy winner on the Republican side but forecast an embarrassing economic protest vote for rightwing challenger Pat Buchanan in Florida . |
| 8 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 9 | ‘ Then stop making up stupid excuses . ’ |
| 10 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 11 | That 's you looking at me , thinking ‘ Zambia Crevecoeur , whore ’ , and making up all kinds of garbage in your head . |
| 12 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 13 | Sylvia had to have a background story , and she enjoyed making up tall tales to tell anybody she was unlikely to meet again . |
| 14 | In a mock ‘ confession ’ to his father , he unwisely described riotous evenings at Cannabich 's house , where he amused the company by making up obscene verses ( a natural talent of his ) , and stayed up until after midnight . |
| 15 | Making up accurate solutions in the correct concentration . |
| 16 | This classification applies to devices used to deliver or control chemicals either at the point of use or for making up accurate solutions to be applied elsewhere . |
| 17 | Next , the xy coordinates of the points making up each line segment were read from the map and recorded manually , together with the identifier of the country to the left and the country to the right in the direction of digitizing ( as illustrated in the 2D encoding and USGS DLG examples of data structures in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 18 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 19 | Such states were a majority of the twenty or so units making up political Europe . |
| 20 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 21 | The middle peasants owned twenty five percent which meant that the , the poor peasants , making up seventy percent owned just twenty five percent of the land . |
| 22 | The approach taken by Ventura is substantially different in that instead of making up individual pages the idea is that the whole document is created in one go . |
| 23 | Oh , making up new rules as he goes along here ! |
| 24 | A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety . |
| 25 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 26 | For instructions on making up this heading refer to PART II Interlined Curtains . |
| 27 | Fry , dismissed by the 20-stone ticket-broker for the third time yesterday , wo n't be kissing and making up this time … he 'll sue for wrongful dismissal . |
| 28 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 29 | Thus sodium , one of the two elements making up common salt , produces two bright yellow lines ( as well as a host of others ) . |
| 30 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |