Example sentences of "making [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skins are waste products from the Scottish smoked salmon industry , making them environmentally friendly . |
| 2 | Multipartite viruses , such as Tequila and Telefonica , are a combination of both and get the best of both worlds , making them particularly infectious . |
| 3 | Many features distinguish Wilson & Glick kitchens from others in a similar price bracket , making them exceptionally good value for money , as could be seen at the Ideal Home Exhibition which was even more successful ‘ the second time around ’ . |
| 4 | The chlorophyll traps are left temporarily positively charged a ( so making them chemically highly reactive ) while the electrons are put to use in synthesising NADPH and ATP on the other side of the membrane . |
| 5 | Telekom it plans to buy products wherever possible , as opposed to making them internally , in order to encourage competition — to bring prices down — and to take advantage of applications programming interfaces to increase the reusability of software . |
| 6 | The contributory pension lent a unifying status , making them no longer the ( passive ) ‘ aged poor ’ but dignified and active ‘ old age pensioner ’ . |
| 7 | Have you started making them already or |
| 8 | They 're making them already now . |
| 9 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 10 | I do n't like any of the transistor stuff and some of the modifications did n't work , but nowadays they 're making them just like the old ones and they 're brilliant . ’ |
| 11 | That 's rounding them making them round . |
| 12 | There is still space for genuinely national economic , political and cultural-ideological practices , but the global capitalist system increasingly marginalizes such practices , making them commercially irrelevant . |
| 13 | He accused the newspaper of making them up . |
| 14 | To fill in the travelling time chant leaders are actively engaged in trying out new versions of old chants or making them up from scratch . |
| 15 | goes into making them up . |
| 16 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 17 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 18 | To growth of that nature can be added the prospect of a fall in car prices , making them even more affordable than they are already . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even if they got to the superleague then were repeatedly humiliated 6 nil I would be happy despite it making them yet more money . |
| 21 | ‘ They may be large — around 40 feet long — but like icebergs 90 per cent is under the water and that is making them incredibly difficult to see among the waves . ’ |
| 22 | We did not shrink from making the necessary changes then and I will not shrink from making them today . |
| 23 | Once cooked complete gelatinization takes place giving the potato a soft texture while the soluble pectin allows the cells to separate making them easily digestible . |
| 24 | Short squat whelks are also the ones most at risk from predators ( see p. 302 ) , their small size and rounded shape making them easily swallowed by gulls and eiders whilst their wide mouth renders them vulnerable to oystercatchers and crabs . |
| 25 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 26 | In particular he came to appreciate that Britain 's reliance on decaying staple industries , whose production costs were making them increasingly uncom-petitive in the post-war world , could only be saved by the abandonment of free trade and the adoption of more protectionist policies . |
| 27 | That and the Building Society 's own policies are making them increasingly frequent targets . |
| 28 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 29 | In addition , they are flame-resistant , making them most suitable for furnishing fabrics . |
| 30 | just to make , if I was making them really |