Example sentences of "[adv] making a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was merely making a boring journey by river and Luxor happened to be at the end of it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was only making a pleasant remark comparing this place to the big city . |
| 3 | Besides , he had no sympathy with the Black and Tans ' methods — they were only making a bad situation worse . |
| 4 | . So making a great show of it Gwendoline sowed on the six blue buttons one night . |
| 5 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 6 | He was obviously making a great effort to cope with a load of premature responsibility . |
| 7 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 8 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 9 | Constable Perkins was torn between keeping an eye on the scene of the crime — and perhaps making a brilliant arrest — or calling up reinforcements . |
| 10 | As a sound is a mantra , so an image is a yantra , the two used together making a powerful combination for spiritual exercises . |
| 11 | Martyn Williams , who joined us in August as Financial Controller , is already making a big contribution with the rest of the ‘ backroom ’ accounts team . |
| 12 | A BIG star of 1993 will be Sadie Frost , 25 , above , already making a big name for herself as she sinks her teeth into Dracula . |
| 13 | ‘ Not making a serious study of it , then ? ’ |
| 14 | If the monitor works but appears to have lost one or more of the red , blue or green colours , the cable connecting the card to the monitor is not making a good connection . |
| 15 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 17 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |
| 18 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 19 | But it was criticised for not making a formal reference to the link between the review and accounts and to the availability of the audited accounts . |
| 20 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 21 | I 'm not making a big fuss like Mary ! |
| 22 | I made sure I got some of the white powder on my fingertips and not making a big deal of it , brought them up to my tongue . |
| 23 | But Aristotle is not just making a sociological point about what is and is not permitted to women in his society . |
| 24 | I 'm just making a small correction . |
| 25 | A few days later , Charles thought fleetingly of the Superintendent 's little shock and the blackbird singing away as if he was just making a bad joke . |
| 26 | Sometimes people lost their footing and brought down others , quickly making a writhing heap on the floor . |
| 27 | Having started off making a big success with a little film , they ended up spending increasingly larger sums of money on bigger films until they had expended so much of their capital they could only go under . |
| 28 | I mean , so there 's he 's still making a reasonable mark- up on that . |
| 29 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 30 | Shall we say then that he has drifted spontaneously through the crisis without ever making a rational decision as to whether to go or not ? |