Example sentences of "[be] [verb] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 2 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 3 | This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks . |
| 4 | The findings are expected to make a contribution to the practical evaluation of the Act , and to wider debates concerning the relationship between law , discretion and working practices in the criminal justice process . |
| 5 | ‘ London will be the only capital city in Europe where rail services are expected to make a profit , ’ he added . |
| 6 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 7 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 8 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 9 | After it has been decided to make a record , these departments , together with the artist 's manager and the A&R staff , discuss the release date . |
| 10 | She 's married and they think they 're going to make a holiday home of it just now . |
| 11 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 12 | He criticised the overbearing volume and the occasional out-of-tune playing , but still noted that : ‘ If they continue to improve at this rate , they 're going to make a name for themselves . |
| 13 | They 're going to make a run for it , she thought . |
| 14 | We 're going to make a pilot and we hope to go out on the network next year … on Central . |
| 15 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 16 | We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible . |
| 17 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 18 | In year two we 're expecting to make a profit of one point five million . |
| 19 | Another subtle form of criticism occurs when someone else is lavishly praised and you 're left to make a comparison : ‘ That report Angela 's done is truly excellent ’ ( sub-text : ‘ It 's a shame yours was n't ’ ) . |
| 20 | 'Cos you know we 're hoping to make a comeback next year . |
| 21 | ‘ They 're determined to make a lady out of her , ’ Mother had said . |
| 22 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 23 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 24 | We 're trying to make a house . |
| 25 | ( However , if you 're planning to make a pelmet like this one , Kate warns that the felt should be coated with a fire-resistant spray . |
| 26 | If the latest available RPI is for October , then we are attempting to make a forecast for the RPI the following January , in which case m = 3 . |
| 27 | Fines of up to £3,000 can be imposed for stealing rare bird eggs , but two witnesses are needed to make a prosecution . ’ |
| 28 | He beleive the newer , longer version of the Hercules may become unstable when the back doors are opened to make a drop . |
| 29 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 30 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |