Example sentences of "be [v-ing] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 2 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 3 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 4 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 5 | She 's married and they think they 're going to make a holiday home of it just now . |
| 6 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 7 | He criticised the overbearing volume and the occasional out-of-tune playing , but still noted that : ‘ If they continue to improve at this rate , they 're going to make a name for themselves . |
| 8 | They 're going to make a run for it , she thought . |
| 9 | We 're going to make a pilot and we hope to go out on the network next year … on Central . |
| 10 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 11 | We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible . |
| 12 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 13 | In year two we 're expecting to make a profit of one point five million . |
| 14 | 'Cos you know we 're hoping to make a comeback next year . |
| 15 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 16 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 17 | We 're trying to make a house . |
| 18 | ( However , if you 're planning to make a pelmet like this one , Kate warns that the felt should be coated with a fire-resistant spray . |
| 19 | If the latest available RPI is for October , then we are attempting to make a forecast for the RPI the following January , in which case m = 3 . |
| 20 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 21 | ‘ Now , I am going to make a list of those present , ’ Perkins continued . |
| 22 | A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work . |
| 23 | this also applies if you are going to make a suit . |
| 24 | Come the upturn , they are going to make a lot of money . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , then , we are going to make a partnership , are n't we ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ These fraudsters will give you enough information to make you greedy and that 's when you are ready to be scammed because you are expecting to make a fortune . ’ |
| 27 | I knew the proprietor must be struggling to make a living , because we could no longer afford to extend him any credit . |
| 28 | I 'm going to make a fortune , and your little flurry on General Motors will keep you in mink for the rest of your life . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to make a fortune , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Look , there 's a phone box over there , I 'm going to make a phone call . ’ |