Example sentences of "[vb -s] be making " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | In the hall , he has been making his accustomed mark from the chair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 5 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 6 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 7 | The best , Polydor 's Lambada Brazil , consists almost exclusively of Brazilian , not French , lambada stars and includes a couple of tracks by the wonderful Margareth Menezes , who has been making such an impact performing with Byrne . |
| 8 | Light from some distant objects was emitted before the sun first shone , and has been making its way to mankind 's eyes throughout the history of the earth . |
| 9 | Ms Phillips , like the Scottish National Party 's candidate Gerry Fisher , has been making a big play for the student vote , which could prove critical in this , Scotland 's second most marginal constituency . |
| 10 | The Labour Party has been making noises which suggest that things would be made easier for these schools , but I believe its welcome back would be a stab in the back for most of them . ’ |
| 11 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
| 12 | It is set in Peru where the stunt man has been making a movie . |
| 13 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 14 | Formed in 1920 it has been making men 's shoes in Rushden ever since . |
| 15 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 16 | Just like Walter Trout , 42 year-old Dave has been making his European debut courtesy of Dutch record label Provogue , and the album ‘ Short Fuse Blues ’ is receiving very favourable recognition with blues fans everywhere . |
| 17 | The company has been making tuning devices for over thirty years and the R450 is the latest in their product line . |
| 18 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 19 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to the edition , and sometimes with the aid of an inscription , Dylan Thomas ( 1914–1953 ) has been making £500 or more . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rourke , who has been making films since Spielberg 's 1941 in 1979 , earned his reputation in 1987 after slamming the producers of A Prayer For the Dying for turning his part into ‘ an Irish Rambo ’ . |
| 24 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 25 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 26 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
| 27 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
| 28 | The company has been making about 300,000 16Ms a month and NEC said that figure will easily climb higher than 2m chips a month with added production from the California factory and a new facility under construction in Japan . |
| 29 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 30 | In an attempt to overcome the criticisms that its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking technology is too proprietary , IBM Corp has been making moves to increase its appeal . |