Example sentences of "making it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 2 | The highest point on Elgon is over 14,000ft ( 4,300m ) , making it the second highest mountain in Kenya . |
| 3 | Boeing sells a third of its aircraft overseas , making it the biggest exporter in the United States . |
| 4 | The state has a population of 7.6 million , making it the most densely populated in the union . |
| 5 | The crowd swelled to around 10,000 , making it the biggest protest in the country since the bread protests in Brasov in 1987 . |
| 6 | This has now gone up to 16 making it the hardest handicap hurdle of the season to date for any punter to try and solve . |
| 7 | One idea on the horizon is to alter the structure of molecules with an AFM — making it the ultimate precision tool . |
| 8 | Almost 35 million Americans tuned in to the first , two-hour pilot , making it the most watched TV movie of the season . |
| 9 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 10 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 11 | Under the statue is an inscription mentioning Tresseno — Dominum Oldradus de Trexeno , Pot ( estas ) Mediolani — and dated MCCXXXIII , 1233 , making it the oldest equestrian statue in Milan . |
| 12 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |
| 13 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 14 | Arnold Palmer had already won the US Masters and the US Open , and was looking to sweep all before him by making it the hat-trick and grabbing the jewel in the crown : the centenary Open Championship at St Andrews . |
| 15 | At the end of 1983 West Germany had 16 nuclear power stations with a total capacity of 11,110 MW , making it the world 's fifth nuclear nation . |
| 16 | The Works had now reached what was to be its zenith as regards workshops , covering an area of 80 acres of which 37 were workshops and offices , making it the largest in the UK solely devoted to carriage building and repair . |
| 17 | As long as the pressure is large , this energy saving is sufficient to tip the balance in favour of diamond making it the more stable form of carbon . |
| 18 | So , next time you buy a guitar strap with ‘ Klondyke ’ on it , you 'll know what 's gone into making it the best , not just in the UK but all over the world . |
| 19 | Left : The Di760SS integrated dishwasher from Zanussi has a sleek , stainless steel panel , making it the perfect match for modern kitchen units . |
| 20 | In many ways this text exhibits all the evidence of rapid composition , hut against this must be set its readability , making it the version now generally preferred . |
| 21 | Four inches of rain have fallen in four days in the south-west , making it the region 's soggiest November since 1940 and Britain 's wettest autumn since 1984 . |
| 22 | Yet here was Vauxhall with the astonishing Cd figure of 0.26 , making it the most aerodynamic production car in the world . |
| 23 | To be called the Alfred and Marie Greisinger Collection , the works range from 1965 to 1986 , making it the most comprehensive array of Beuys multiples outside Germany . |
| 24 | Its strands can grow to a metre in length , making it the world 's longest moss . |
| 25 | One of these aircraft was unique in that it was fitted with metallised wings and fuselage , making it the only metal Norseman in the world . |
| 26 | During World War Two over 20,000 DFCs were awarded , with 1,550 first bars and 42 second bars , thus making it the most frequent gallantry award of the War . |
| 27 | Currently , about one child in 200 in England is treated surgically for the condition each year , making it the commonest reason for elective surgery in children . |
| 28 | Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment . |
| 29 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms Ltd in Wimbledon , London SW has acquired three more companies holding cable franchises in the UK North West and Midlands , making it the UK 's largest combined cable television and telephone operator : the companies , bought from Maclean Hunter Cablevision Ltd , add 499,000 premises to Nynex CableComms ' holdings in the Manchester area and ups its holdings to 17 franchises that cover more than 2.5m homes and businesses ; the new franchises are in Cheshire , East Lancashire and Staffordshire ; the company plans to invest more than £1,000m to provide local communications networks in all franchise areas ; it employs 700 in the UK with more jobs to be created as franchises are developed . |
| 30 | Even so , the IMF 's new figures still lift China 's share in world output to 6% — three times its previous weight , making it the world 's third-biggest economy behind America ( 22.5% ) and Japan ( 7.6% ) . |