Example sentences of "be [pron] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh fuck , am I making any sense ? |
| 2 | They thought well kids just make a fuss anyway and they have n't got any proper routes so what 're they making all that fuss about y'know , shut up , um and er that kind of things was going on . |
| 3 | Ask for motives : ‘ On what basis are you making that interpretation ? ’ , |
| 4 | Write properly Stacey come on , say it out to yourself , what are you making such a row ? |
| 5 | ‘ On whose behalf are you making these enquiries , Mr Barnett ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Are you making some criminal plan against me ? ’ |
| 7 | Are you making any at the minute that nobody else would make , that only you would back or only you would nurture ? |
| 8 | Are you making more toast ? |
| 9 | For the fourth time of asking , what will be the impact on 15 Para of the change from battalion to company status , where will the battallion headquarters be , why is it being taken out of Scotland , and , at a time when the Secretary of State says that flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain 's Army , why are we making major reductions in a force which is the most flexible and mobile in the British Army ? |
| 10 | Are we making any headway in encouraging our partners to share domestic responsibilities ? |
| 11 | Finally , I said , ‘ Well , if you will not meet Mrs Castle , how are we to make any progress ? |
| 12 | If armed services personnel and members of their families have that legal right , are they made aware of it by their commanding officers ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why have you had three different jobs in the last twelve months ? ’ , 'Why were you made redundant ? ' , etc. , so that you can practise positive responses to them . |
| 14 | ‘ Were they making all this noise while I was studying ? ’ he thought . |
| 15 | Well , were they making any statement about herself , perhaps ? |
| 16 | Mr Patten turned lexicographer in an article in the Guardian to define the concept in the following way : ‘ The active citizen is someone making more than a solely economic contribution to his or her community ; nothing more or less . |
| 17 | These now basically work a routine of Centro sprinters and the Regional Railway Class 158 's which make two trips each way every day . |
| 18 | Sandie , who met Freddie when she was an 18-year-old dancer on his show , smiled broadly as he quipped : ‘ The real reason I 'm leaving my wife is she makes lousy coffee . ’ |
| 19 | But revenge is not to be allowed us , for when we turn up at their concert a phalanx of adults is there to make sure the audience behaves . |
| 20 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 21 | Yes it 's the magic E , is n't it , and what 's it making that A say ? |
| 22 | Neither is it made explicit how one element in the descriptive frame is supposed to interconnect with another . |
| 23 | An anaesthetist 's ability to maintain airway patency by using a conventional facemask is not a skill easily acquired , nor is it made redundant by this new piece of equipment . |
| 24 | We never learn their names , nor is it made clear until the end what is wrong with the man . |
| 25 | Some writers quote dates to an accuracy of 25 years , others 30 years , but rarely is it made clear why , or how such dates are obtained . |
| 26 | Only with line B , and with its last word , is it made clear that the image of the whole couplet is of sacrifice ; the burning of line A must be of wood upon the sacrificial altar . |
| 27 | Right , whose responsibility is it to make sure the copy of the final tables is kept . |
| 28 | For my life I can not understand , what is it makes this man now so lame , so hesitant , so crippled , who was wont to be hale and prompt enough . |
| 29 | Is he making subtle statements about the mutable nature of fashion , or does he just have crap taste in togs ? |
| 30 | That 's what made all the craziness of Tony 's orchestrations work . |