Example sentences of "making [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 2 | Do n't pay a large deposit , and be wary of making payment in full before the work is completed ( many retailers will let you hold back up to 10% of costs until you are satisfied with the work ) . |
| 3 | I like the way the T-shirt falls from their shoulder blades making patterns of straight , hard lines that change when they walk . |
| 4 | The non-sticky one is churning out copies of non-sticky ones at thousands of times the rate that the sticky one is making copies of sticky ones . |
| 5 | By making copies of prehistoric stone implements and then using the copies to cut , scrape and chop different materials ( such as growing crops , bones and hides ) , the patterns of wear formed by these processes can be matched to wear patterns on the original artefacts . |
| 6 | Useful for making copies of incoming letters , copy invoices , complicated official or legal documents . |
| 7 | There has long been a tradition of skilled furniture-making in the island , making copies of British and French pieces . |
| 8 | There are a few in the field of Art education today , ill-informed about what really took place in the West Riding in the 1950s and 60s who say , " Oh yes , that was about drawing from observation , with youngsters making copies from natural objects " . |
| 9 | Making money for good causes is probably why the National Wildlife Federation , the National Audubon Society and other environmental mailers sell their mailing lists to high-fashion clothiers , luxury-car dealers and other non-tree-hugging capitalists . |
| 10 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 11 | They have devious ways of making money from bereaved people 's misery , whether by knocking on the door after a death , offering to clear the house for cash , including any objects of value ; or by offering solace in exchange for cash or fees . |
| 12 | We 've become better at making money in sluggish trading conditions and are making the most of the patchy recovery we 've seen in some of our markets . |
| 13 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 14 | Some matters were easy to spot , for example , the importance of making provision for pre-nursery children if parents were to be actively involved on the premises . |
| 15 | The special educational needs should be met as far as possible within the normal educational system , and parental views should be taken into account in making provision for particular children . |
| 16 | In making provision for open space and in considering the location of houses on plots and their relationship to each other local planning authorities should not attempt to prescribe rigid formulae . |
| 17 | In fact it provided the industry with more control over its environment by making conflicts over environmental damage an administrative problem whose outcome could be predicted by corporate executives . |
| 18 | Making improvements to existing , uninsulated , timber or concrete floors is likely to be highly disruptive and prohibitively expensive , and is best done as part of a major renovation programme . |
| 19 | During this time he developed and patented several new types of high-pressure steam boiler as well as making improvements to steam-tight glands , valves for pumps , and anti-clinkering fire bars . |
| 20 | Making replicas of existing chairs is generally done to extend sets of antique chairs , but it can also prove a very useful introduction to chair-making techniques . |
| 21 | And in the particular art of making programmes for preschool children , without being violent or patronising , we have some the finest producers anywhere . |
| 22 | That they will also feel more confident of making contracts with local authorities and that any fears they may have might be allayed . |
| 23 | He was making notes on other violations . |
| 24 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 25 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 26 | Making constructions from mundane materials : wood , string , glass , wire , plastic and such-like to define and encompass his concepts of space , energy , weight and transparency was for Lanyon a lifelong exercise which both grew out of and was channelled back into his paintings , thus extending the parameters of his vision and adding a further element to his work . |
| 27 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 28 | One woman started making pictures from dried flowers after her husband died and her children left home . |
| 29 | Improved efficiency in electrical appliances could be encouraged by making labelling on new items mandatory so consumers could choose the ‘ greeenest model ’ . |
| 30 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |