Example sentences of "[pers pn] are making a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten minutes before the end of the cooking time , open the foil covering the chicken to allow the skin to brown , while you are making a small quantity of ( packet ) bread sauce in a small saucepan , and heating the tinned peas in another . |
| 2 | ‘ When you both feel light-hearted enough to enjoy your baby , you are making a good start ’ says Infant Care on its second page , and Spock uses the same injunction , ‘ Enjoy Your Baby ’ , as a subheading in his chapter ‘ The Right Start ’ . |
| 3 | I guess everyone said it is 95 per cent curable ; the treatment is good ; you are making a good recovery . |
| 4 | SERAFIN : You sound as if you are making a cautious discovery about your feelings for the first time . |
| 5 | In this Olympic year we are making a major commitment to athletics . ’ |
| 6 | As an incentive , we are making a special introductory offer of a reduced subscription to schools — £18.00 instead of the normal institutional rate of £25.00 . |
| 7 | We are making a significant investment to establish a major Wimpol presence throughout South East Asia . |
| 8 | ‘ We are making a big effort to repair more cars on the roadside . |
| 9 | According to Simon Lyster of the World Wide Fund for Nature : " They are making a serious point . |
| 10 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
| 11 | Consequently , they believe that domestic services are a good thing and a necessary part of everyday life and that by encouraging the growth of urban centres they are making a positive contribution to ‘ community life ’ . |
| 12 | They might have been refused by mainstream publishers or alternatively , and this is the more likely , they are making a positive choice to do it this way , since self-publication means that the writers can determine exactly what goes into their printed work . |
| 13 | And i they are making a positive contribution of twenty eight thousand pounds towards those overheads |