Example sentences of "[verb] [be] making [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 2 | The Pearl has been making strenuous efforts to change its business direction , but the Australians clearly see the possibilities offered by the British group 's large distribution network to market its own products . |
| 3 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 4 | Our client has been making regular visits to the property , usually at weekends , during which he maintains it as well as performing a security function . |
| 5 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 6 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 7 | Our ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ and ‘ Weaver Ale ’ brands are recognized as high quality beers , and Dulverton Cider has been making significant inroads in the take-home trade . |
| 8 | All are part of the Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts chain , which , since the introduction of its Green Programme in 1990 , has been making enormous cash savings while contributing widely to Canada 's environmental policy . |
| 9 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 10 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 11 | The Crown said Wilson co-operated fully with detectives and although the total amount of drugs had a street value of £40,000 , the ‘ relative margins ’ for each link in the chain meant Wilson would not have been making significant money . |
| 12 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 13 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 14 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 15 | In support of this , the coordinator had been making extensive use of the County Topic Loan Service , the school library and the adjacent community library . |
| 16 | Louis XV was not , however , enthusiastic about the scheme and , after trying for a year to interest him , de Broglie , a soldier , decided to pool his information and ideas with de Choiseul , who , controlling the Ministries of Marine , War and Foreign Affairs , had been making independent plans of his own . |
| 17 | The Free French group , however , had been making excellent progress and were well on the way to becoming operational . |
| 18 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 20 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 21 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 22 | We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’ |
| 23 | Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards was flown home on one of the Hercules transport planes which have been making regular relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 24 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 25 | Telescopes have been making parallactic distance measurements of the closest stars since 1831 , when the Scottish astronomer Thomas Henderson discovered that the nearest star to the Sun , Alpha Centauri , was 4.3 light-years away , a distance of 26 million million miles , much further than people had imagined . |
| 26 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 27 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |