Example sentences of "making [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back to it carefully , stroking it gently and making shushing noises with my mouth . |
| 2 | Making profitable decisions requires energy , stamina and a good blood supply to the brain . |
| 3 | Anthony Dew , of the Rocking Horse Shop , introduces the first principles of making rocking horses by carving the head |
| 4 | A wide range of full-size plans for several different sizes and styles of rocking horse , a video and a book on ‘ Making Rocking Horses ’ , and a huge range of accessories ( glass eyes , manes and tails , stirrups , bridles and saddles etc … ) for rocking horse makers are available from The Rocking Horse Shop , Holme upon Spalding Moor , York , YO4 4AB . |
| 5 | Their primary motive was ‘ for the good of the company ’ : that meant creating more efficiency in the productive process , cutting costs , not making unnecessary repairs , and so on , all with an eye on improving the corporate 's profitable position . |
| 6 | They were always erm , making caustic comments about the entries in the , in the log book which the telephonists had to keep , erm , of the messages that came through |
| 7 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 8 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 9 | Very dazed and making awful noises . |
| 10 | His eyes are bulging , he is wheezing , making awful sounds . |
| 11 | A lifetime of measuring men 's inside legs and making weak jokes about dressing on the right side or the left — ‘ of the bedroom , I mean , sir ! |
| 12 | Chester , in particular , is making loud noises about converting some of its greenbelt for housing and light industry . |
| 13 | At this time the King 's French gardeners were making extensive improvements to the Palace gardens and frequent inspection was necessary . |
| 14 | An Inspector from the local water company may well visit your house if you intend making extensive alterations or additions and may be able to help you by spotting any bad practice or likely contravention of the bye-laws . |
| 15 | This outcome is dependent upon the level of competition being sufficient to ensure that firms are constrained to making normal profits , and that they are therefore forced to reduce price when costs are lowered . |
| 16 | Mr Cocks also criticised judges for making uninformed pronouncements about whether child witnesses were old enough to give evidence . |
| 17 | It is a clay used for making glazed tiles , wash basins and lavatory pans . |
| 18 | Schmid took four of his six toccatas from the examples in Diruta 's Il Transilvano ( Venice , 1597 ) , a dialogo on the playing of organs and harpsichords — including the method of making ornamented transcriptions for them . |
| 19 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 20 | We escape from this vicious circle by using the ‘ boot-strapping ’ procedure of making simplifying assumptions about the functional organization of the brain and interpreting our experiments in the light of them . |
| 21 | As BHC says , it has moved from building low-flying aircraft to making high-flying boats . |
| 22 | Our efforts in data-gathering are to maximise our chances of making right choices and decisions . |
| 23 | Mm a week later than Christmas Day Do you know about angles making right angles ? |
| 24 | In the case of profoundly handicapped births , life expectancy will probably be limited anyway ; if it is not , the doctors and parents are , in effect , destroying the life of the baby concerned because they are making subjective judgements about what kind of a life it will lead . |
| 25 | Many companies er were making fabulous profits and what reason was there to prevent a good shop stewards ' committee from going in to try and enhance their members conditions ? |
| 26 | By taking a piece of grazing marsh with freshwater fleets , controlling water levels , making watery scrapes and building hides , it has proved possible to give visitors excellent views of thousands of wigeon , mallards and teal , with white-fronted geese frequent in winter . |
| 27 | Personal convictions provide the strongest pressure in making professional judgments , and two of the most powerful and most relevant in the question of censorship are moral principles and political beliefs . |
| 28 | The Code makes no mention of this conflict , and rightly so , because our own beliefs have no part to play in making professional judgments . |
| 29 | Of course during the ramp 's 11 year history as well as making professional skaters it has attracted a fair few . |
| 30 | Now a father with a boy aged four and a girl of two , he has , he says , been making professional sacrifices in order to avoid the mistakes made in his own upbringing . |