Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] to make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doors are joined to make a predella-like altarpiece . |
| 2 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 3 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 4 | They are arranged to make a more or less connected narrative , and , taken within the larger historical framework already described , form a more detailed story of El Cid . |
| 5 | ‘ London will be the only capital city in Europe where rail services are expected to make a profit , ’ he added . |
| 6 | The Kiwis will follow with a similar itinerary between November and December , while England are expected to make a short tour in January 1993 , hopefully for two Tests and a couple of One-day Internationals , on their way to India . |
| 7 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 8 | The findings are expected to make a contribution to the practical evaluation of the Act , and to wider debates concerning the relationship between law , discretion and working practices in the criminal justice process . |
| 9 | They are expected to make a full recovery , but Sir Ranulph is likely to lose part of the second biggest toe on his left foot because of frost-bite . |
| 10 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 11 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 12 | He criticised the overbearing volume and the occasional out-of-tune playing , but still noted that : ‘ If they continue to improve at this rate , they 're going to make a name for themselves . |
| 13 | We 're going to make a pilot and we hope to go out on the network next year … on Central . |
| 14 | ‘ I just know you 're going to make a huge success . |
| 15 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 16 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 17 | They 're going to make a run for it , she thought . |
| 18 | We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible . |
| 19 | She 's married and they think they 're going to make a holiday home of it just now . |
| 20 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 21 | In year two we 're expecting to make a profit of one point five million . |
| 22 | You 're having to make a conscious effort to be detached , are n't you ? |
| 23 | Another subtle form of criticism occurs when someone else is lavishly praised and you 're left to make a comparison : ‘ That report Angela 's done is truly excellent ’ ( sub-text : ‘ It 's a shame yours was n't ’ ) . |
| 24 | 'Cos you know we 're hoping to make a comeback next year . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're determined to make a lady out of her , ’ Mother had said . |
| 26 | And if you 're determined to make a new life for yourself , Jessamy , it would be much better for you if you did n't end the old one on a sour note . |
| 27 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 28 | We 're trying to make a house . |
| 29 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 30 | Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately . |