Example sentences of "making [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It embraces the whole range of sexual activities , making the minimum changes necessary to make them safer .
2 I argued the advantages of establishing a Unit based on the principle of the fullest exploitation of surprise and of making the minimum demands on man-power and equipment .
3 Flush through the pipe before making the final connections and fit insulation to all exposed pipes afterwards .
4 I can give a commitment to the hon. Gentleman that we shall consider Edinburgh 's bid with great care before making the final allocations to local authorities .
5 The fun of choosing the exact position for each item , and making the final adjustments , could wait until she was on her own .
6 The second shift arrives at 3pm to serve tea and Christmas cake before making the final preparations for the grand supper at 6pm .
7 The man making the bogus collections was described as middle aged .
8 In the kitchen , which had now become familiar to him , Joe set about making the two cups of cocoa .
9 Only the most starry-eyed optimist could have supposed that the Union of the Crowns and then , at last , the Act of Union in 1707 making the two countries one would somehow bring immediate peace in a region with such memories .
10 A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) .
11 Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable .
12 Each time you go through the text you practice the discourse structure , as the structure , or " grid " , stays the same while you are making the other changes .
13 Staff are to be congratulated for the way they accepted the move , and on their commitment to making the new arrangements work .
14 Craig Chalmers reckons that much of the credit for making the new men feel part of the Scotland set-up is down to Hastings .
15 However , the computer specialist is the person who is making the real decisions .
16 Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices .
17 Phonics involves making the appropriate noises for particular symbols : it is , by definition , about reading aloud , or about finding out what a word is by saying it .
18 The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on .
19 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
20 If output could be expanded up to the point unc where price equals marginal cost , there would be an extensive gain in social welfare , namely the shaded area. , Making the simplifying assumptions that there are no income effects and that any effects on the distribution of income are unimportant , this area may stand for the true change in social welfare .
21 That , perhaps , is one reason why Mr Clinton has dwelt particularly upon ‘ symbolic ’ politics : like making the armed forces accept gays or staffing his administration with an eye to ethnic ‘ balance ’ .
22 Even if Nicu was intended to be their ultimate successor , he was not allowed to appear as dauphin , particularly not after making the critical remarks to his father about the economic problems and social conditions in Sibiu .
23 The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it .
24 Whatever the reasons and after some soul searching they sold their home and entered college in 1921 , making the best arrangements they could for the children .
25 Eight of the biggest enterprisals agreed to stop making the offending items .
26 Eating is about making choices ; healthy eating is about making the right choices .
27 Here is a brief guide to making the right choices .
28 A new car is a major purchase and , by making the right choices when you buy , you should get the best deal when you sell later
29 Really it is a case of keeping a careful watch on the tank and making the right choices .
30 Indeed some Americans were beginning to question whether either government was making the right choices .
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