Example sentences of "making our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will probably hold some trial games before making our final selection . ’ |
| 2 | Most of us religiously plough through the manual , certainly a good way to start , finally making our first effort , say a fully fashioned stocking stitch sweater . |
| 3 | Then Humphries returned to New York and the rest is making our Swiss friends very happy . |
| 4 | The surplus of over £15,000 million , ( that is the gross proceeds , less VAT ) , would find its way into circulation , while VAT at 25% would probably make up half of the £M 7,000 needed , making our entire oil revenues surplus to current budget . |
| 5 | ‘ We believe we are making our financial statements more understandable , and that they will now be able to be read by people other than actuaries . |
| 6 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 7 | You see we still insist on making our handmade bricks in the same painstaking way we 've always made them . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's making our little sister , ’ said Katya . |
| 9 | The more certainty they can have from this enquiry , the better for us in making our own plans . |
| 10 | We criticise the European Commission for its interventions about our roads and about the development of the channel tunnel , but the people of Wales and of many of our regions should also say , ’ We should be making our own decisions , not people down there in London with little or no interest in us . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They did n't reckon on us making our own nylons , ’ he gloated . |
| 12 | What is the logic of making our own reporting and interpretation of events in Bosnia unavailable to Serbian readers ? |
| 13 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |