Example sentences of "making [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Japan 's financial markets had been substantially deregulated in the previous three years , making them more sensitive to changes in the price of money . |
| 32 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 33 | America should spend more on improving the technology of its weapons , and less on actually making them |
| 34 | Making them like they used |
| 35 | In LBOs , creditors are often also shareholders , making them less likely to jostle for advantage when times get tough . |
| 36 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 37 | Some 2,600 houses have already passed the 90-day limit without offers , making them available for sale to any buyer . |
| 38 | Far from addressing such insularity , the work-out system as initially conceived tended to reinforce the parochialism of GE 's managers by making them even more introspective . |
| 39 | Authority tries to make people uniform , categorizes them , gives them numbers ; but Nature , with splendid abandon , persists in making them all different . |
| 40 | This time , Eleanor had brought a cake of her own — she was good at making them . |
| 41 | He had taken them away from me and was making them his own . |
| 42 | The few weapons that are made of arsenical copper contain more arsenic than the tools , thus making them potentially harder . |
| 43 | If this damn war ever starts , chaps like me will be , must be , uncompromising about decisions to the point of making them on the spot . |
| 44 | It is difficult , as so many failures show , to describe ‘ the values ’ of a society without making them appear more systematic than they are , or ( the reverse danger ) making them appear time-serving and meretricious . |
| 45 | It is difficult , as so many failures show , to describe ‘ the values ’ of a society without making them appear more systematic than they are , or ( the reverse danger ) making them appear time-serving and meretricious . |
| 46 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 47 | The problem is making them all come together . |
| 48 | The wordsmiths who put wooden jokes into his speeches are writing for a man who lacks the essential sense of timing for making them . |
| 49 | Multimedia is bringing together companies from diverse sectors , including the computer business , publishing , broadcasting and consumer electronics , making them new collaborators or competitors . |
| 50 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 51 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 52 | Washington could impose duties of up to 80 per cent of the price on imports from Europe , almost certainly making them uneconomic . |
| 53 | As in many parts of Europe the farmers were carrying on as in the past but economic changes in the country were making them more vulnerable . |
| 54 | This seems to be a major bugbear of some guns , making them harder work than applying the adhesive from a tube . |
| 55 | An angle of up to 10° can be placed on all couplings of this type , without leakage , making them the favourite choice . |
| 56 | The more enduring issues will be concerned with making decisions based upon those statements and with the wider questions of who should be making them and in what way . |
| 57 | However , it is still possible that hoteliers , nightclub owners etc. may decide to change their facilities making them permanently unavailable . |
| 58 | Irvin Ehrenpreis claims , for example , that the pastoral myth in ‘ The Deserted Village ’ sets villagers outside the world of observation , thereby making them seem unreal . |
| 59 | Many prospectuses are very wordy making them unattractive to the casual browser , some are over 8000 words long ! |
| 60 | Studies in animals show that the breakdown products of electrically arced sulphur hexafluoride kill cells , and irritate the lungs of mice and rats , making them bleed . |