Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] making a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there then came a different and terrible world with the ‘ men in the mohair suits ’ and the glory was making a quick buck . |
| 2 | For independent advice where the adviser is making a selection from all the products on offer , the investor may prefer to seek an adviser authorised by the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . |
| 3 | Well the , the first ones that we made going down from here , the car 's making a racket , the stereo 's like on full blast you ca n't hear anything we 're saying at all . |
| 4 | Nobody inside or outside the administration is making a good job of selling the tax . |
| 5 | The throttle lever was still against the wall and the engine was making a healthy din up front . |
| 6 | But the men did not hear her because the engine was making a lot of steam and noise . |
| 7 | But now at Shortwood farm in Herefordshire , the binder is making a comeback . |
| 8 | So , while the electrician is making a new connection , we ( including the managers from the office ! ) decided to find the shovels and do it the hard way . |
| 9 | The olive is making a mild come-back , with the help of European Community money . |
| 10 | ‘ The Institute is making a career of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 11 | whether the business is making a profit or loss and how this profit or loss is made up . |
| 12 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 13 | ‘ Maintained ’ means that the deceased was making a substantial contribution in money or money 's worth towards the reasonable needs of the applicant , and he did not receive full valuable consideration for this : thus food and shelter are included in the definition . |
| 14 | His impromptu striptease took place while the band were making a £30,000 promo for the hit . |
| 15 | The rain was making a curtain all round them but not a drop came through the yew . |
| 16 | Most of the population were making a living , and sometimes a killing , in ways that were strictly speaking illegal . |
| 17 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 18 | One of them was seriously ill in hospital , the other was making a satisfactory recovery . |
| 19 | The leech is making a comeback in medicine , according to Roy T sawyer , whose company Biopharm in Swansea has developed medical applications for leeches . |
| 20 | Mr Grade believes the Corporation is making a rod for its own back . |
| 21 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 22 | The citizens charter reform means that the Government are making a determined effort to move away from the era when the gentlemen in Whitehall always knew best towards a more open , accountable public service , striving to do better . |
| 23 | The Government are making a major error by dismissing local income tax out of hand . |
| 24 | The Government are making a mistake unduly to curtail debate . |
| 25 | I do not want to go over that ground again ; suffice it to say that we accept the Secretary of State 's assurance that the Government are making a genuine effort to find a mechanism to implement Lord Cullen 's recommendation 30 . |
| 26 | The man 's making a fool of you . |
| 27 | I have little doubt that the ‘ Nicas ’ are spawning , but the plec is making a midnight feast of the eggs . |
| 28 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 29 | Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms . |
| 30 | The centre-half is making a good recovery from a knee injury and could be back in contention for a place in Monday 's derby with Middlesbrough . |