Example sentences of "be making [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monoamine oxidase inhibitors would prevent the inactivation of noradrenaline and other amines thought to act as neurotransmitters : might they be making good a lack of one of these amines in the tissues ? |
| 2 | LESTER Piggott 's chances of renewing his famous Derby partnership with Vincent O'Brien increased yesterday as Fatherland was reported to be making good progress from injury . |
| 3 | Should they be making low-budget films pitched largely at the local market and emphasizing their Britishness , as the critics demand , or big films on the Hollywood model for the world ? |
| 4 | Cica will not be competing directly with top-of-the-range brands such as Reebok and Nike as it will not ‘ be making specific performance claims ’ and will be ‘ better value for money ’ , says Linford . |
| 5 | I think that by anybody 's judgment , they should be making appropriate payments to qualifying lenders . |
| 6 | I 'll give them the real Henry Farr , and he wo n't just be making witty little remarks about the London orbital motorway either . |
| 7 | Less so the next morning when , his stomach seriously disordered and his head aching , John-William had started to wonder why a man like Goldsborough who was " gentry " through and through despite his odd goings-on at the Fleece , should be making revolutionary suggestions as to how the " squires ' government might be brought down . |
| 8 | Against this , they will be making continuous assessments of the scale of current bank lending . |
| 9 | How could he be making small talk when their bodies were pressed together like this ? |
| 10 | Soon his own children would be making similar pictures for him to admire , so maybe he 'd better start getting into practice . |
| 11 | The big difference between it and option one is that the government would not be us ing social-security receipts to reduce its outstanding debt but would instead be making multi-trillion-dollar investment decisions in the private economy . |
| 12 | It 's recently said it will be making new masks . |
| 13 | On any one day , although some people will be withdrawing money , others will be making new deposits . |
| 14 | David did not in fact begin to relax his reserve until nearly a week after the telegram had arrived , when Julia judged it a suitable moment to say that she and Anthony would be making other plans for Easter . |
| 15 | In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition . |
| 16 | For those employees who wish some help to adjust to the smoking ban , the Council will be making available information packs and , for those who wish to stop smoking completely , smoking cessation classes . |
| 17 | We should be making available our experience of world affairs , which will be essential to the outward-looking Europe that we must create . |
| 18 | Agents will be making persistent , systematic mistakes in predicting the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 20 | If own R&D is indeed an effective way of uncovering the fruits of rival films ' R&D , then many spillovers between firms may be more apparent than real : rival firms may be making simultaneous but independent drawings from the same common pool of scientific knowledge or technical knowhow . |
| 21 | SOUTHPORT will not be making wholesale squad changes as the Haig Avenue club prepare for their move into the GMV Conference next season . |
| 22 | It will be making early morning visits to the boulder beaches and broken cliffs where it will later lay its two large spotted eggs well out of sight in some crevice . |
| 23 | The Committee has made its written submissions and will be making oral representations on this topic . |
| 24 | But instead of reading aeroplane comics and moping around you should be making sure your pride and joy is in a fit state to survive the winter — and ready for any of those all too infrequent sharp-edged days that appear out of nowhere and vanish just as quickly . |
| 25 | We thought they must be making sure we had no hidden messages and Brian used to mock them , saying , ‘ The Kalashnikov is hidden in the bathroom . ’ |
| 26 | Erm because the problem is the school 's s now supposed to be making economic charges er which involves caretaker 's fees plus heating costs and everything . |
| 27 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 28 | Research findings suggest , moreover , that the people most likely to change their votes — the floating voters — are generally the least informed within the electorate , and are thus not people who can be said to be making careful choices between policies . |
| 29 | He could feel it even with his hands over his ears ; it seemed to be making unpleasant bubbles in his head . |
| 30 | My own inquiry into God will try to make sense of the ‘ meaning ’ theist position , but in doing so I shall also be making clear — since they encounter one another on common ground — what the view of the ‘ meaning ’ atheist might be . |