Example sentences of "making [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 These have a long shelf life and can be served hot or cold , making them a very good standby to have in the cupboard .
2 Both techniques could considerably improve the efficiency of electrically-driven heat pumps , making them a more worthwhile proposition .
3 These attractive little bagrid are active during the day making them a useful addition to the mature , well-established and maintained planted community tank .
4 Sega did allow rentals , but charged a huge licensing fee , making them a bad deal , he said .
5 The most important capital market imperfections occur in equity markets , making them a relatively minor source of new capital for companies , and in credit markets , which in some circumstances can cause credit rationing .
6 An older hand , helping with the fixing , commented that the release clips for folding and unfolding the Workmate were set further back than on his old-style version , making them a little more difficult to operate , and that the metal frame had more angular , sharper corners — not quite as user-friendly , he reckoned !
7 Attaching doctors to single hospitals for both of their house jobs might be one way of making them a more obvious part of the system .
8 The pilot jounced the ship through turbulence — Jezrael felt the gravity drag at her limbs , making them a dead-weight that her feeble stamina could n't shift .
9 Now , however , with the Government , the CBI , the STUC and the TUC all looking to see core skills in educational and training programmes , SCOTVEC is making them a mandatory element of general SVQs .
10 An angle of up to 10° can be placed on all couplings of this type , without leakage , making them the favourite choice .
11 Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club .
12 He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions .
13 The groundwaters associated with the retrograde alteration are highly mineralised and are buffered by portlandite solubility to pH 12.5 , making them the most alkaline natural waters recorded .
14 They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales .
15 Quasars have red shifts ranging up to 4.5 , making them the most distant distinct sources so far detected .
16 It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience .
17 At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things .
18 In a surprising development regional autonomy groups in the north , campaigning against the centralized state and against immigration , particularly from southern Italy , and advocating federalism , won 5.6 per cent of the vote overall , making them the fourth largest political force nationally .
19 Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world .
20 But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country .
21 ‘ He said he was making them an offer they could n't accept .
22 Take this craze for making everyone a shareholder .
23 Finally , bringing innovation full circle , people who lead changes share credit and recognition — making everyone a ‘ hero . ’
24 But Mother must have known how precious dollies were to me and set about making me a black one taking the pattern from my old one , which I called Cuddles .
25 The medieval element was a strong influence too : as a result , my mother was cajoled into making me a suede money bag with a draw-string and five polished threepenny bits for sovereigns .
26 When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill .
27 ‘ You are making me a wreck . ’
28 My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked .
29 Are you making me a coffee then ?
30 You making me a coffee ?
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