Example sentences of "it [is] making " in BNC.

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1 Normally I like breakfast , but the milk 's too cold and it 's making my face ache .
2 It 's making a hell of a racket , but it stops the noise after a bit , cos it gets stuck in the traffic .
3 It 's making me annoyed .
4 It 's making the most of what you 've got .
5 His voice trembling with anger at the English writer 's ignorance , Rozanov said , ‘ It 's making a huge difference .
6 The kid dotes on her , and it 's making her difficult .
7 It 's making me feel uncomfortable now , what can I do to discourage him ?
8 ‘ My life 's such a mess , it 's making me ill ’
9 Whether it 's making a bed , building a skyscraper or landing a man on the moon , the lesson is the same .
10 It 's not just making sure that the notes harmonise , it 's making sure that they 're attacked in a similar manner .
11 ‘ It 's getting to us a bit but it 's making us even more determined .
12 Listen to the noise it 's making . ’
13 Vivid Publishing in Los Altos , California , makers of the TypeView font utility for Next , has come up with an environmentally aware software packaging scheme it 's calling EarthPack and challenging other software vendors to do the same : it 's making the specifications available to any who inquire and will license the EarthPack name free of charge .
14 I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work .
15 Recently , fashion has been very safe , but now it 's becoming more aggressive , it 's making more statements , and the French are going to do well because of that , ’ says Guy Tolson .
16 Erm it 's making the initial contacts that 's the problem .
17 Yeah but it 's still making me confused I 'm thinking about too much at once it 's making it worse .
18 I know it 's still an acid but the way it 's thinking about it 's making me confused .
19 At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status .
20 So it 's making it look like inverse proportion and the first thought is , Oh it l er er oh .
21 It 's making a game of it before we go down that matters .
22 It 's making a difference to life .
23 I 'm not doing anything here — and it 's making her upset that I do n't go home .
24 Moving on to B Sky B well it 's making excellent progress by the end of July we had over two point three million homes connected and over half of those are subscribing to one or two movie channels .
25 Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals .
26 Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business .
27 We put them on and apparently it 's making no difference .
28 It 's making a mockery of it , it 's showing one father can get away with what another father ca n't .
29 They say its so bad it 's making them ill .
30 A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things .
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