Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [be] making a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vodafone Group Plc is making a rescue one-for-277 share exchange offer for cellular air time reseller Hawthorn Leslie Plc , valuing the struggling company at £2.9m , 1.54p a share against 2.5p in the market ; Vodafone has also conditionally agreed to procure redemption of the £16m convertible loan stock 2007 of Hawthorn Leslie held by Svenska Handelsbanken and repay outstanding loan facilities from Svenska , which brings the total cost of the transaction up to about £31.5m . |
| 2 | The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter . |
| 3 | An historic sailing vessel 's making a return to the region 's waterways — but there 's only room for one on board . |
| 4 | A new sound can be heard in hair salons around the country — the once familiar hum of the hood dryer is making a comeback . |
| 5 | Wall-mounted up-lighters are still popular with many designers but there are signs that central pendant lighting is making a comeback . |
| 6 | This dire short-term market squeeze has at least temporarily put paid to the idea that the building society industry is making a graceful adaptation to the 1980s ' deregulation of the financial services market . |
| 7 | I notice that the Government Whip is making a note . |
| 8 | The Mercedes and Bentley may have been the show stars ; elsewhere , though , son of beach buggy was making a comeback . |
| 9 | Somewhere in the depths of Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Very Long Instruction Word technology is making a resurgence , and this time around it 's destined for use with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip . |
| 10 | In this text Africanus was making a general point . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , British Coal Pension Fund is making a contested bid for Globe , Britain 's largest investment trust , with over £1.09 billion of assets , and more than 40 000 shareholders . |
| 12 | AFTER a period when it looked as if airworthy examples of the type were going to be extinct in the UK , Hawker 's Sea Fury is making a comeback . |