Example sentences of "[is] [adv] making " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they perhaps fail to understand just how crushing it is to make beds and casseroles for one who is secretly making whoopee . |
| 2 | It 's slowly making me ill ! |
| 3 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 4 | The realisation that as well as the emotional , psychological , and physical damage caused by child sexual abuse there is the chance that a child may have been infected with HIV , is slowly making an impression on SSDs and workers in child protection . |
| 5 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 6 | As one church planter has said : ‘ When Jesus comes back , I want to be doing something for God , even if it 's only making mistakes . ’ |
| 7 | He is constantly making connections — pulling apparently disconnected experiences together , and synthesising a variety of different views . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 9 | A serious petrol shortage is only making things worse — bus travel , crowded at the best of times , is now cruel and inhumane . |
| 10 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 11 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 12 | The added tension of waiting is only making things worse . |
| 13 | Jaguar is only making 350 of the cars . |
| 14 | Rumour has it Roosevelt 's already making secret moves , although he 's too damn fly to let anybody in on it . |
| 15 | Oxfordshire County council 's already making use of a government grant of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds to combat truancy . |
| 16 | All the signs are that radio is an exciting prospect — the forthcoming deregulation of the industry with associated changes in costs , and an expected boom in advertising revenues , is finally making the City take notice . |
| 17 | The fact that they have been asked to continue until the next World Cup makes good common sense and I hope it is a sign that at long last someone at the top is finally making the right decisions . |
| 18 | It 's really nice and sweet all day and it 's fucking making me even angrier . |
| 19 | The most difficult part as a captain is generally making decisions early and sticking to them . |
| 20 | you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else . |
| 21 | ‘ That bastard Banks is just making nonsense of it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The doctor is just making his rounds now . |
| 23 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
| 24 | By arguing , amongst other radical things , for limited liability , the new chairman could change that — and he is already making the right noises . |
| 25 | The Voice of the Listener and Viewer pressure group claims in BBC2 's Open Spaces tonight the BBC is already making ‘ drastic ’ and irreversible cuts in jobs and resources . |
| 26 | But 3M , the US company , is already making 12 million video tapes a year in Gorseinon , South Wales and employing 950 people . |
| 27 | Imro is already making organisational changes and is to strengthen its monitoring resources . |
| 28 | The management at Perry Poultry might not have amassed this sort of paper wealth yet but , only founded in 1989 , the company is already making a name for itself in the food business . |
| 29 | Personal computer network service company Maddox Group Plc , set up as recently as February 1992 , is already making profits , claims a 4% share of the corporate market , and intends to keep on growing by acquisition . |
| 30 | For the simpler tasks of cataloguing , none the less , the computer has a major contribution to make and is already making it . |