Example sentences of "making [pron] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He says the ice will cool the phototubes , making them more sensitive , and also provide an environment free of natural radioactivity . |
| 62 | Ramtron claims that mass-storage FRAMs could make hard and floppy discs unnecessary in smaller computers , especially laptops , making them more compact . |
| 63 | The small size of the formulations compared to red blood cells means they could penetrate solid tumours , making them more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiotherapy , and they could reach inaccessible parts of the heart during surgery . |
| 64 | Also a rise in temperature melts fats making them more fluid and easier to remove . |
| 65 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 66 | As most shampoos are detergent-based and alkaline , conditioner helps to restore the hair 's natural acidity and smooths down the cuticles , making them lie flat to reflect more light and add shine . |
| 67 | In the species Hydra vulgaris and Hydra attenuata , the algae are real parasites of the hydras , making them ill . |
| 68 | If a sequence of six enzymes is needed for a particular synthetic pathway , all six genes for making them must be present . |
| 69 | ‘ I have never actually married ’ , she says , ‘ I find the marriage vows preposterous , I could never imagine myself making them . |
| 70 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 71 | I said , ‘ Come on , there are a lot of birdies left out here still , ’ and he just kept making them — along with an eagle ! |
| 72 | He knew how to extract ideas and information from people without ever making them feel sucked of vitality — because he never failed to give back as much as he took . |
| 73 | In the process of making them , did you meet any opposition apart from that which you said may have come from the medical malpractice fear ? |
| 74 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 75 | It is worth analysing your reaction to conflict situations since you may unwittingly be making them worse . |
| 76 | They should be designed to the highest mobility standards , making them easy and safe to move around in . |
| 77 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 78 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 79 | This means that in practice the local authority first takes steps to ensure that the byelaws which they propose to make will receive approval before making them . |
| 80 | It is not unusual for this situation now to be recognised officially , and many authorities have the positions of the leaders included in their Standing Orders , sometimes , for instance , making them ex-officio members of all committees and sub-committees of the Council . |
| 81 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 82 | Encouraging children to wish to be good is more important than making them be good . |
| 83 | Wherever possible automatic safety factors are built into the machines , for instance by making them unworkable unless the guards are in place . |
| 84 | Logging GNP per capita goes a long way towards holding the midspreads constant by making them similar in size . |
| 85 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 86 | Nobody likes scum , it looks dirty , leaves a rim around bowls and sticks to clothes making them look dull . |
| 87 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 88 | The euro-currency markets have altered the structure and operations of most major banks by encouraging overseas representation and making them innovative and adaptable to changing economic circumstances and customer needs . |
| 89 | Ridiculous making them quarter-hour points — because the burglars knew where you were . |
| 90 | There is sometimes a fine line between encouraging residents to take part in an activity and making them do something they really do not want to do . |