Example sentences of "making [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Request his views on whether the meeting is making progress at the right pace and whether he has any ideas on ways of moving things forward . |
| 2 | BRITAIN is making progress in the tricky business of converting video images into useful information . |
| 3 | The politicians were amateurs , instinctively confident that common sense was sufficient to guide them in making judgments about the professional standing of the interviewees . |
| 4 | Worse , by stripping Germany of much of its industrial wealth , its merchant fleet and its colonial possessions ; and by resurrecting Poland , and making inroads into the German sense of security over Danzig and the Polish Corridor , they gave further cause for grievance and hardened the most unpleasant facets of the German identity fostered by the marcher lands . |
| 5 | From Bremen Courtaulds began making inroads into the German aircraft coatings market , targeting the major players Deutsche Aerospace and Dornier . |
| 6 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | But in the future , the competition may mean making enemies of the other flexible friends . |
| 8 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 9 | And second , perhaps even more subtle than the dangers of making misjudgements about the early ulema and hierarchy under the influence of the distinctive character of the later hierarchy , one must avoid the danger of being led by the nature of the biographies themselves to dehumanize the ulema , a danger present in all the sources hut perhaps particularly in Ata'i . |
| 10 | If S > E the investor starts to earn profits on the long investment before making losses on the written call . |
| 11 | Louise , gritting her teeth against saying everything she wanted to say , spent part of the time making tea in the terrible little lean-to . |
| 12 | Much of the other coursebook publishing consists of additions to series at both higher and lower levels : Nelson is publishing Signature Beginners and Synthesis Plus ( not to be confused with the already-published Synthesis Advanced , labelled ‘ new ’ in the Nelson catalogue ) ; OUP is producing Hotline Intermediate ; Longman has Blueprint Upper-Intermediate and Intermediate Choice ; Penguin is completing Making Waves with the fourth year 's work ; and CUP promises New Cambridge English Course 4 for the summer . |
| 13 | Making waves on the 36 bus |
| 14 | If the module name is accepted by LIFESPAN , then you will be able to update the module header by making entries in the following fields . |
| 15 | At the annual congress of the CGIL in Rimini on Oct. 22-26 the federation 's reformist secretary-general Bruno Trentin , fighting off challenges both from a current linked to the Socialist Party ( PSI ) and from the old-style communists , claimed that rather than " making demands for the working class " the CGIL would now be " the union of solidarity and of the rights of pensioners , the disabled , immigrants , women and the marginalized " . |
| 16 | The UN 's Commission on Human Rights has passed a resolution expressing ‘ grave concern ’ over human rights violations in the Middle East country , making mention of the religious discrimination against Baha 's . |
| 17 | Through the window the wind was making noises in the stripped trees . |
| 18 | As a result , senior industry members developed a publication on quality management making reference to the specific requirements of BS5750 . |
| 19 | Making reference to the emotive yet eccentric account compiled by the historian , Michelet , who had witnessed the French Revolution as a young boy , Kiefer has constructed twenty beds for the female martyrs and heroines of that great and terrible event . |
| 20 | Indeed , in the course of our research it became increasingly clear that many of those commenting upon the " new " temporary working were making reference to the same small number of examples of this practice — examples , moreover , in which the number of temporary workers actually employed was often very low [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 21 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 22 | There is no point in teaching prefixes if the child is making errors in the initial consonant ; and if he 's uncertain about the relationship of sound to symbol , and is producing lots of phonic alternatives , then that must be solved before anything else is approached . |
| 23 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 24 | Most campaign committees have signed up their volunteers by December , but you can still help by making donations of the following : |
| 25 | To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories . |
| 26 | His awareness and exploitation of these rights enable him to achieve some success in making criticisms of the Czechoslovakian government . |
| 27 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 28 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 29 | Increasingly frustrated , he walked out in 1974 to help found Newsreel , an independent collective making films for the Labour movement . |
| 30 | In the ten years since the author spent some time making films about the rich animal life of Sri Lanka for the ‘ Survival ’ series of documentaries , that pendant has , alas , been ripped from its setting . |