Example sentences of "[be] [adv] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most large flavour and fragrance houses are already making major investments in biotechnological research . |
| 2 | Let it not be thought this will exclude the Presbyterians who are already making secret trips to Roman Catholic outfitters and coming away with bright blue cassocks and nifty black shirts with priestly collars which can be removed in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 3 | I think you 're just making that song up dear |
| 4 | So we 're just making little trips as we run out of stuff . |
| 5 | ‘ The TV crew on The Darling Buds Of May know that I hate my backside , so they 're always making little comments , ’ she revealed in an exclusive interview . |
| 6 | I think they 're probably making educated guesses are n't they whereas we 're making stabs in the dark . |
| 7 | Erm unle unless we 're actually making that change as such , then the only way forward it seems to me i i is on the lines of which of which Mr has indicated which is that erm essentially the needs of Greater York are calculated on the current Greater York study area and the requirements are made on that basis and the supply is within that area , unless it ca n't be made in that area in that case it goes without that area , and therefore it it it 's part of the justification for the new settlement . |
| 8 | Where a number of trustees are appointed they are always made joint tenants , in order that , on the death of one , the whole property may be vested in the survivors ; but in other cases joint tenancy is inconvenient and rarely occurs . |
| 9 | ‘ They are always making such inquiries . |
| 10 | As you can see , I am once making great claims on behalf of separatism . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 12 | It 's no use charging on with , say , 83 stitches one side of ) and 81 on the other side , as it is difficult to be accurate with the increases or decreases when you are forever making mental adjustments . |
| 13 | On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic . |
| 14 | It still gives a lot back to me , and I am still making new friends . |
| 15 | Engineers and some metallurgists resisted the idea with the whole force of their emotions and even today some of them are still making growling noises in caves in the backwoods . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , it 's been such a relief to hear that Liz and Owen are still making good progress . |
| 17 | ‘ But it is not all bad news in the car trade : one or two models are still making high prices ’ |
| 18 | But it is not all bad news in the used car trade : one or two models are still making high prices . |
| 19 | ‘ We are also making non-stop enquiries . |
| 20 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 21 | But the two ‘ warriors ’ explain that ever since the first Earth party came to the Sense-Sphere years ago , repaying kindness with treachery in a bid to seize control of the planet 's rich stocks of the metal molybdenum , all humans are now made permanent prisoners . |
| 22 | Politicians are now making favourable noises about other countries ' experiments with road pricing . |
| 23 | Americans think they have lost more ground than others and are now making great efforts to catch up . |
| 24 | The former nationalised industries are now making vast profits , the unions have been silenced , inflation is down to four per cent and we do n't have the crippling defence burden caused by keeping the USSR at bay . |
| 25 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 26 | I 'll be there to make sure things like that do n't happen . |
| 27 | I 'm currently making frequent trips to Poland , and there one sees a type of early capitalism developing that has a certain charm like Visconti 's movies of the Fifties . |
| 28 | District councils are presently making good progress on the development plans and appro and an approved alteration is clearly essential for that process . |
| 29 | Stage or interim payments are then made each week to the sub-contractor and the surveyor will make any necessary remeasurement and adjust the final quantities and payment accordingly . |
| 30 | CIA Marketing Director Bryan Squibb said : ‘ More than half the companies surveyed have left themselves unprotected against bad debt and reported that they were merely making bad debt provisions , taking legal action , vetting customers or using debt collection agencies . |