Example sentences of "[noun] i am making " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 2 | But in current conditions the change I am making will help to ease the pressures on liquidity and avoid complicating money market arrangements . |
| 3 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 4 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 5 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 6 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 7 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |
| 8 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 9 | The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason . |
| 10 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 11 | The point I am making , here , is tentative and preliminary : it is simply that , unlike cinema which is still a ‘ specialized activity ’ , television 's relation to the everyday seems more determining than its relation to fantasy . |
| 12 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 13 | The point I am making here is that when you tackle a big job you need the necessary resources to complete it . |
| 14 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 15 | The point I am making here is based on an observation by Stanley Cavell ( 1979 , p. 460 ) and repeated by him in many contexts : ‘ a human being could not fail to know , confronting me , that I am a human being ’ . |
| 16 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 17 | The point I am making here is that the interpretation of symbolic action in the context of social relations is not just a matter of inspired hunch . |
| 18 | ‘ The point I am making is that Paul is not the only young player around with that confidence . |
| 19 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 20 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 21 | Erm , but you see the point I am making , the idea is that er religion appeals to people , because they , they see the in injustices of the world , erm , you know if er , er , injustice is an , is an inevitable , erm , experience , erm , some of us erm , might be inclined to think especially if you live under the British system of er criminal justice , and so if you ca n't get justice here , perhaps you can after death , because god is ultimately just , and no mistakes will be made in heaven , as it were . |
| 22 | The basic point I am making is I , you know , and this is quite unfair . |
| 23 | I would put the distinction I am making slightly differently . |
| 24 | This is emphatically not the claim I am making here . |
| 25 | I do n't suppose she will understand this , or the connection I am making , tentatively , with Claudia 's fate . |