Example sentences of "have been making [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 2 | The Pearl has been making strenuous efforts to change its business direction , but the Australians clearly see the possibilities offered by the British group 's large distribution network to market its own products . |
| 3 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 4 | Our client has been making regular visits to the property , usually at weekends , during which he maintains it as well as performing a security function . |
| 5 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 6 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 7 | Our ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ and ‘ Weaver Ale ’ brands are recognized as high quality beers , and Dulverton Cider has been making significant inroads in the take-home trade . |
| 8 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 9 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 10 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 11 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 12 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 13 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 14 | Louis XV was not , however , enthusiastic about the scheme and , after trying for a year to interest him , de Broglie , a soldier , decided to pool his information and ideas with de Choiseul , who , controlling the Ministries of Marine , War and Foreign Affairs , had been making independent plans of his own . |
| 15 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 17 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |