Example sentences of "[prep] making [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The old man straightened his back after making sure the trailer was securely attached to the rear of the minibus .
2 Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) .
3 ‘ Well , after making such a song and dance about it , there 's very little to tell .
4 Three points should be noted : ( 1 ) Note 1 to the Rule recommends anyone considering making such an announcement to consult the Panel first .
5 Bosses at the British Leather Company are considering making redundant the bulk of its workforce at factories in Birkenhead and Litherland .
6 Therefore , managed floating does not have the advantage of making redundant the holding of official reserves .
7 The tenant should resist a provision that interest should be deemed to be rent due to the landlord as this will have the effect of making available the remedy of distress as well as that of forfeiture without the necessity to serve a s 146 notice .
8 They are merely one method of making possible the ability to communicate out of which a community can grow .
9 The cost of making good the damage done to his grounds as a result of the event had left him out of pocket .
10 Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant .
11 Examples of the current price differences are : £136 charged by Ford for an Escort Mark III front panel , compared with £54 from an independent supplier — the true cost of making such a panel is closer to £10 ; Peugeot charges £136.50 for a bonnet on its 405 model , £85 from an independent ; A headlamp on a Granada Mark III can cost £106.50 from a Ford dealer , £67 from an independent .
12 I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains :
13 This is used as the basis for practice in the skills of making such a presentation and of commanding the language to do it .
14 Perhaps the dilemmas of making such a film were best summed up by William Johnson in Film Quarterly .
15 This is not to say that there is only one right way of making such a choice but it can be helpful to have an insight into your own personal style of decisionmaking , and how this was applied to your career choice .
16 If the result of making such a lesion is amnesia or failure to learn , it would support the claims for having found such a memory site .
17 That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement .
18 As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms .
19 It 's what comes of making such a mystery of it .
20 But the purpose of making such an accusation is , if it is made defensively , to cement oneself into a position of self-righteous stasis , and not to bring about change .
21 I would n't dream of making such an observation .
22 If we took half the amount of effort in planning our future we would be much more certain of making that a success too .
23 At least as important is the process of making explicit the argument structure of your essay .
24 In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified .
25 Meanwhile , we must return to the point where we introduced rationality as a Weberian way of making precise the concept of meaning .
26 It is certainly true that whilst such lists can provide an important first step towards making visible the nature of gender bias , it is the consequent further and more detailed thought concerning each question which often results in :
27 He 'll do daft things , like making all the stag ponies step aside on the path to avoid treading on a slug .
28 I should like to thank everyone in the Division for all the hard work which has gone into making 1990 a year of significant progress .
29 7.7.8 If at any time the Tenant shall be entitled to the benefit of any insurance on the Premises ( which is not effected or maintained in pursuance of any obligation contained in this Lease ) to apply all money received by virtue of such insurance in making good the loss or damage in respect of which such money shall have been received The landlord 's concern is to avoid the situation by which its insurers may refuse to pay the whole of the proceeds of insurance where the tenant has also taken out insurance cover for the premises , pursuant to a common provision found in insurance policies .
30 Apart from the pure nostalgia generated among those of us who know the route well , it was enlightening to hear from Russell of the practical problems and time involved in making such a film — 200+ hours and many journeys , hoping to be at the right place at the right time — and , as always , the great unknown — the weather .
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