Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] making [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 2 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 3 | Vango have been making strong , well constructed tents for as long as I can remember and the Odyssey 200 dome tent certainly lives up to Vango 's good name . |
| 4 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For many years our brethren of the turf have been making sure of the accuracy of their finishes ( as well as the propriety of conduct around the bend and down the straight ) by employing photographic scrutiny . |
| 7 | In recent years , the English courts have been making greater and more assertive use of their powers ; they retain , however , a proper sensitivity to the position of foreign countries , and exercise their discretion with that in mind . |