Example sentences of "making it the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest point on Elgon is over 14,000ft ( 4,300m ) , making it the second highest mountain in Kenya . |
| 2 | If one allows for a surrounding portico , 10 ft wide , the overall dimensions would have been 71 by 69½ ft , giving an area of 4934.5 sq.ft , making it the second largest temple in Britain . |
| 3 | The new bank , still to be known as BankAmerica , would have assets of $190,000 million , making it the second largest in the country . |
| 4 | Gardner Merchant acquired Rowland Commercial Catering ( Australia ) making it the second largest operator in Australia . |
| 5 | On April 7 Djibouti lifted all trade and travel restrictions whilst Côte d'Ivoire announced the establishment of full diplomatic relations , making it the second African country ( after Malawi ) to exchange ambassadors . |
| 6 | Morland has been brewing beers in Oxfordshire since 1711 , making it the second oldest brewery in the country . |
| 7 | Airtours , based at Rossendale , Lancs , will have nearly 550 travel agencies following the purchase of Hogg Robinson 's 214 shops , making it the second biggest operator behind Thomas Cook . |
| 8 | Airtours will have nearly 550 travel agencies following the purchase of Hogg Robinson 's 214 shops , making it the second biggest operator behind Thomas Cook . |
| 9 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , making it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrinkwrapped multiprocessing version of Unix SVR4 . |
| 10 | Butterfield saw an increase in sales of 12% last year , making it the largest American auction house . |
| 11 | Up to 150,000 people joined the march in the city centre on Feb. 4 , making it the largest unofficial demonstration in the city since the immediate post-revolution period ; members of unofficial groups of almost every political persuasion joined in , from anarchists and separatists to right-wing Russian nationalists and monarchists . |
| 12 | The merger of Boston Five 's mortgage servicing operation with Gulf States Mortgage Co will double the size of Gulf States to $8 billion , making it the 42nd largest mortgage firm in the United States . |
| 13 | The Boston deal will double Gulf States ' mortgage portfolio to $8 billion , making it the 42nd largest mortgage firm in the country . |
| 14 | Guinness has a market capitalisation of over £9 billion , making it the eleventh largest company in the UK ( 18.4.93 ) . |
| 15 | And , as the European manufacturer operating in the only home market where tenders are genuinely open , ICL has succeeded in making itself truly competitive , so much so that insiders are saying that profits for 1992 will be only slightly below the £62.4m recorded for 1991 , making it the only profitable mainframer in Europe . |
| 16 | Consumers throughout the EC and in other wealthy countries had responded by increased purchases , making it the fastest- growing sector of the meat industry |
| 17 | Under the statue is an inscription mentioning Tresseno — Dominum Oldradus de Trexeno , Pot ( estas ) Mediolani — and dated MCCXXXIII , 1233 , making it the oldest equestrian statue in Milan . |
| 18 | Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment . |