Example sentences of "be [verb] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doors are joined to make a predella-like altarpiece . |
| 2 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are arranged to make a more or less connected narrative , and , taken within the larger historical framework already described , form a more detailed story of El Cid . |
| 5 | This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ London will be the only capital city in Europe where rail services are expected to make a profit , ’ he added . |
| 7 | The Kiwis will follow with a similar itinerary between November and December , while England are expected to make a short tour in January 1993 , hopefully for two Tests and a couple of One-day Internationals , on their way to India . |
| 8 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 9 | The findings are expected to make a contribution to the practical evaluation of the Act , and to wider debates concerning the relationship between law , discretion and working practices in the criminal justice process . |
| 10 | They are expected to make a full recovery , but Sir Ranulph is likely to lose part of the second biggest toe on his left foot because of frost-bite . |
| 11 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 12 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 13 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |
| 14 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After it has been decided to make a record , these departments , together with the artist 's manager and the A&R staff , discuss the release date . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We 're going to make a pilot and we hope to go out on the network next year … on Central . |
| 19 | ‘ I just know you 're going to make a huge success . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 're going to make a run for it , she thought . |
| 23 | We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible . |
| 24 | She 's married and they think they 're going to make a holiday home of it just now . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | In year two we 're expecting to make a profit of one point five million . |
| 27 | You 're having to make a conscious effort to be detached , are n't you ? |
| 28 | Another subtle form of criticism occurs when someone else is lavishly praised and you 're left to make a comparison : ‘ That report Angela 's done is truly excellent ’ ( sub-text : ‘ It 's a shame yours was n't ’ ) . |
| 29 | 'Cos you know we 're hoping to make a comeback next year . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're determined to make a lady out of her , ’ Mother had said . |