Example sentences of "making [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she said what it is is basically we 're all just starting from the bottom because this new idea of where they 're buying small homes and making them small communities |
| 2 | They won all stages but one in a seven month tournament making them overall leaders by 135 points . |
| 3 | It is not unusual for this situation now to be recognised officially , and many authorities have the positions of the leaders included in their Standing Orders , sometimes , for instance , making them ex-officio members of all committees and sub-committees of the Council . |
| 4 | Ridiculous making them quarter-hour points — because the burglars knew where you were . |
| 5 | They may also feel that they have no right to put their children at risk by making them passive smokers . |
| 6 | Multimedia is bringing together companies from diverse sectors , including the computer business , publishing , broadcasting and consumer electronics , making them new collaborators or competitors . |
| 7 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |
| 8 | Hops thus contain both flavour and bittering components making them valuable ingredients in brewing . |
| 9 | Catfish tend to stay stationary for long periods making them ideal subjects for photography . |
| 10 | A year later , and Nirvana will headline the 1992 Reading Festival , their staggering rise , post-Reading '91 , making them obvious contenders for the prestigious Sunday night slot . |
| 11 | It might be objected that even though some criminal laws are in the interests of the dominant class and that others which are obviously not in these interests are ineffectively enforced , thus making them dead-letter laws , it still remains true that laws proscribing those types of victimizing behaviours of which we are all too aware and which set the nerve-ends of neo-classical/conservative criminologists , such as Wilson ( 1975 ) and Morgan ( 1978 ) tingling with fear and loathing , are in all our interests . |
| 12 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 13 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 14 | She says : ‘ I felt very glamorous indeed but I 'll still probably stick to making my own clothes in future . |
| 15 | " I am nineteen years old , I am capable of forming my own opinions , making my own decisions . |
| 16 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 17 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
| 18 | My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 19 | My Lord the first er issue is as a matter of English law and the English law position , my Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship I took you to the case , we looked at the statements of er the House of Lords and er Lord in particular with whom the other Law Lords agreed , my Lord do you wish to go back to the fact again ? |
| 20 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 21 | To 1967 , I 'd add another year , an equivalent point of take-off — 1979 ( punk energy making its first altercations with black dance production , dub and funk , its first trysts with electronics , its first stabs at multi-media performance ) . |
| 22 | Lying awake in the room next to hers , the episode with the boy had kept recurring to him , the sweat running on the boy 's face and his hands protruding from the sleeves of the dog's-tooth suit and his voice making its extraordinary statements . |
| 23 | By the time the next issue of FlyPast hits the magazine shelves the Vulcan will be making its last appearances as a flying exhibit . |
| 24 | The drone buzzed curiously across the room and vanished behind the table , making its own checks on the Doctor 's health . |
| 25 | As well as its apparent willingness to take on board proven independent software technologies , the company is also making its own products available on other platforms . |
| 26 | It is understood a special six-man squad of detectives is making its own inquiries after meeting a wall of silence generated by fear from the injured men and others seen so far . |
| 27 | But her favourite design team of Peter Morrissey and Leona Edminston , who have their own small shop in Sydney 's Strand Arcade , are charged with making her fun outfits . |
| 28 | And yet , even though her father had talked to her like one adult to another , as if at last he was ready to acknowledge that she 'd grown up and was making her own decisions , she 'd sensed the undercurrent of despair in what he was saying . |
| 29 | Did they all think her incapable of making her own decisions ? |
| 30 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |