Example sentences of "be make [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By the time the next issue of FlyPast hits the magazine shelves the Vulcan will be making its last appearances as a flying exhibit .
2 We criticise the European Commission for its interventions about our roads and about the development of the channel tunnel , but the people of Wales and of many of our regions should also say , ’ We should be making our own decisions , not people down there in London with little or no interest in us . ’
3 But Rotherham wo n't be making it five wins in a row .
4 Mr Reid will be making his own recommendations .
5 ‘ You 'll practise on your harp , and you 'll soon be making your own songs again . ’
6 ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’
7 Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition .
8 In these free-and-easy days people are making their own rules already .
9 Other boards are making their own arrangements but in each case the courses will lead to a recordable qualification .
10 Pat is among an increasing number of people who are making their own arrangements .
11 I thi I think they 're , the the NALGO COHSE and NUPE health branches are making their own arrangements in Northumberland as far as I know .
12 ‘ We believe we are making our financial statements more understandable , and that they will now be able to be read by people other than actuaries .
13 At the same time as these directors were making their classy films , there were many other directors churning out the cinema of workmanlike entertaining pictures .
14 Meanwhile the German fighter pilots were making their own claims ; Lt.Willi Kothmann of I/JG 27 claimed one Hurricane at 1700 ( probably Ayre ) , the only claim to be made by pilots of this unit over Malta during 1941. 7/JG 26 then arrived and Fw .
15 ‘ I do n't suppose that 's made you many friends back in the lab .
16 It is understood a special six-man squad of detectives is making its own inquiries after meeting a wall of silence generated by fear from the injured men and others seen so far .
17 Then Humphries returned to New York and the rest is making our Swiss friends very happy .
18 Now the obvious ambition is to make their first-class debuts together .
19 One of the cheapest ways of providing accommodation for lots of small water animals is to make your own mini-aquaria , as described below .
20 The Drinking unit is to make our younger pupils more aware of alcohol-related problems before most of them are actively involved in its consumption .
21 Nicholson on the other hand was taking the pretty route , basically because he had no choice ; no one was making him any offers .
22 And yet , even though her father had talked to her like one adult to another , as if at last he was ready to acknowledge that she 'd grown up and was making her own decisions , she 'd sensed the undercurrent of despair in what he was saying .
23 I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in .
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