Example sentences of "[noun prp] be making a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state of Texas is making a substantial contribution , and about $1.7 billion is expected from foreign partners . |
| 2 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 3 | Scotland is making a strong contribution to this study and the final conference on the theme is to be held here next year . |
| 4 | Second , the furore obscured the fact that Velikovsky was making an important point : catastrophes have occurred in the past . |
| 5 | Nick Stogdon is making a first appearance , as is Bob Light from Santa Barbara . |
| 6 | Pickering Methodist Church member Peter Robinson is making a second visit to Albania in May taking 200 mattresses and clothing collected in the Ryedale area . |
| 7 | As ACCOUNTANCY goes to press , Charterail is making a last ditch attempt to find more funding and reopen negotiations with BR . |
| 8 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 9 | Williams was making a thinly-disguised attack on the French authorities who , according to captain Naas Botha , ‘ certainly made our stay something of a learning experience ’ . |
| 10 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 11 | Palmer is making a clean break with the past in many ways , and in an interview with Digital News & Review magazine , he takes issue with Ken Olsen 's dismissal of Unix as ‘ Russian trucks and snake oil ’ . |
| 12 | To secure continuity , there must be a clear case that the LEA is making a valuable contribution to the local economy . |
| 13 | CIVIC leaders from Middlesbrough 's twin Zimbabwean town of Masvengo are making a two-week trip to the UK next month . |
| 14 | Some of the aircraft from blockbuster films like Aces High and Indiana Jones are making a special appearance at an airshow . |
| 15 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 16 | But Mercury is making a slow start . |
| 17 | David Platt is making a brave fist of replacing Alan McInally — his goal , brilliantly struck from an angle after he had gone round Peter Shilton , was his fifth this season — but he cut a solitary , composed figure in a side bereft of confidence and quality . |
| 18 | Pick Systems Inc , Irvine , California is making a serious drive into the Russian market , says Constantin Stovolosov , head of the European office of Pick Systems in Moscow . |
| 19 | This subject bred its share of Middle Eastern coffee-shop rumours , as for example in April 1984 , when a London newspaper — citing unidentified Gulf sources — reported that Iran was making a nuclear bomb , to be available two years later . |
| 20 | Tristan was making a big show , running a carpet sweeper up and down , straightening cushions , Kicking a duster at everything in sight . |
| 21 | In Knightsbridge , Crane is making an interesting juxtaposition between French painter , Robert Combas , and Jean-Michel Basquiat , whose survey opens at the Whitney Museum , New York , towards the end of this month . |
| 22 | The elderly founder of the charity helping children in the back streets of Calcutta is making a brief visit to Britain after a visit to Ireland . |
| 23 | Hilda was making a Dutch Delft Cake at the oven . |
| 24 | Vauxhall is making a big push with diesel models across the entire range , in many cases matching prices with the equivalent petrol models . |
| 25 | The CAA is making a major contribution to the development of JARs and the way JAA is organised … |
| 26 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 27 | Mr Cottle was making a close scrutiny of his boiled egg , tapping it to excess , as though otherwise it might rise like a blunt rocket and escape . |
| 28 | By scorning concert-hall constants , Karajan was making a realistic attempt to put music on film . |
| 29 | Eighteen months later , Thomas is making a good recovery , though he can not be diagnosed as being clear of leukaemia for another three years . |
| 30 | Loose-head prop Clark is making a big impact for the South West in this month 's ADT Divisional Championship . |