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making

(= devising, fashioning) the act that results in something coming to be the devising of plans the fashioning of pots and pans the making of measurements it was already in the making (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake (= qualification) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something her qualifications for the job are excellent one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree she has the makings of fine musician

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Simple sentences

Can you imagine me making a cake?
Don't be afraid of making mistakes.
Don't be afraid of making mistakes when speaking English.
Never be afraid of making mistakes.
My hobby is making model planes.
Making money is not the only goal in life.
He is making great progress in English.
My mother is making a cake.
Tom is used to making quick decisions.
I ordered the children to stay quiet, but they kept on making noise.
She's making progress.
Tom won't be making any deliveries today.
Tom apologized for making Mary wait.
Tom won't be making a speech today.
Stop it! You're making her feel uncomfortable!
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
James had a great fear of making mistakes in class and being reprimanded.
They're making too much noise. I can't concentrate.
You continue making the same mistakes time after time.
I can't help but think you're making a mistake.
Would you mind making an extra cup of coffee whenever you decide to have some?
Making money is his religion.
In the car on the way home, he was making plans for the next day.
People who are afraid of making mistakes will make no progress in English conversation.
Don't worry about making mistakes.
You may rest assured; I have no ulterior motive in making this donation.
You're forever making mistakes.
Don't laugh at him for making a mistake.

Movie subtitles

How could they possibly sit on the sidelines with news coming in that their archenemies, the Spaniards, were making a killing overseas?
That means that the lord mayor, the sheriffs, the city council, the freemen, the Iiverymen and the aldermen are all more than 800 years old, making this the world's oldest autonomous commercial institution.
You're making things up again.
It's nothing so bad, because this time I'm not committing a sin just by making things up again!
You're making things up again, Arnold. (Elder Cunningham!
You're making things up again, Arnold. (Holy prophet man!
I think it's safer here than being back at camp where a bunch of people don't like me thanks to you, making those wild accusations.
Nothing's making sense here.
Why doesn't he bury her right away, making the 3 days of funeral process like this?
Dispoing the food like this, and making these townspeople into debt will be a great gain for you.
I will definitely make you pay the price for making the injured look for you everywhere!
Until when are you thinking of making a laughing stock out of me?
Teaching all that great literature, making me think I can do it, too.
Medicine is making progress.
We're making headway. The emperor freed Adbelkader and authorized him to leave France for Turkey.
You're not making my job any easier.
The profit we were making there, I can double that.
Sorry. I was making sure they were safe.
Returned home briefly before making a stop at the Radford Bank in Adams Morgan.
You'd think I'd get some satisfaction out of that, but I don't because nothing. No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
You've been making me pancakes for two years.
You are making a big mistake, Mr. Yquem, if you continue to neglect your wife!
Making a stock.
That's enough. -Not making enough money?
You want to thank me for making you happy.
I'm figuring on making other people dance.
It must be ensured that the working masses in the mines are included in making leeway.
Every night after school, me, Mickey, and Pork Chop are making sandwiches for, like, two solid hours, sometimes three.
Frankie keeps making me do it, and every time I do it, it feels worse, and plus, I'm not a very good liar.
Lying to Nick is making me, like, physically sick.
In high school, our decision-making skills are not fully developed.
Peter is his way into, maybe, just one slight advantage of making that happen and being able to get rid of it.
What's wrong with making use of the time in between to date?
And I picked you up after you got kicked out of the taxi for making a mess.
Making a call? I'll let it slip.
Making a choice and protecting something is a difficult thing to do.
Making your own fortune at a young age.

News and current affairs

One senses something like the making of an American-Asian dominated universe.
Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.
While this system does provide incentives for certain kinds of research by making innovation profitable, it allows drug companies to drive up prices, and the incentives do not necessarily correspond to social returns.
This would also involve making the choice of the European Commission's president dependent on the outcome of the EP elections.
If they are fully informed of the risks, and are still willing to fly - perhaps the crew has been offered more money, as workers in dangerous occupations often are - should we prevent them from making the decision to fly?
As a result, Kosovo and Serbia would constitute two distinct international subjects, bound by a confederation hinging on a common decision-making body.
What is needed are clear checks on arbitrary rule, and transparency in decision-making.
The solution should be to focus on improving the technology - making the lights safer, brighter, warm up faster, and save more energy, so that more people will replace more of their lights.
Moreover, countries like Ethiopia are making valiant, indeed remarkable, efforts to overcome their problems, despite the lack of adequate, and long-promised, help from the world's richest countries.
While economic analysis can help in making institutional choices, there is also a large role for public deliberation and collective choice.
The US military's protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.
He recognized that Ceausescu was doomed. Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
After all, since then the EP's influence and powers of joint decision-making have grown constantly.
Forget about subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use.
Despite making some progress in investigating the complaints and referring them to the justice system, as well as in raising public awareness about the issue, the challenges remain huge.
Edmonton - Chinese President Hu Jintao will make a high-profile visit to Japan from May 6-10, making him the second Chinese head of state ever to travel there.
They do not form a formidable presence, as in Nigeria, where some Muslim-majority states in the north have even implemented Sharia Law, making them more or less Islamic states.
So no political price is ever paid for continuing wars that cannot be won or making demands that will not be met.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
In Uganda, where civil wars in the 1970's and 1980's devastated farming, cotton growers are making a major comeback.
As a result, the army will be dominant in decision making on important issues like nuclear negotiations.
Forced harmonization is dead, which opens the door to making new voluntary forms of social harmony possible.
Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.

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