noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
making a nuisance of yourself (= annoying other people with your behaviour )
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Stop making a nuisance of yourself !
making advances to
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She accused her boss of making advances to her.
making cracks
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He’s always making cracks about how stupid I am.
making overtures to
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They began making overtures to the Irish government.
making small talk
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We stood around making small talk .
making such a fuss
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I don’t know why you’re making such a fuss about it.
making...documentary
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A local film crew is making a documentary about volcanoes.
making...revisions
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I’m making some revisions to the book for the new edition.
making...sneeze
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The dust was making him sneeze .
making...up as...went along
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He was making the story up as he went along.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
busy
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Tents had gone up and the temporary occupants were busy making themselves at home.
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Meanwhile the campaigners are busy making protest banners.
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They are too busy making money to worry about paying bills. 8.
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She's too busy making arrangements to leave for Bristol to worry about us.
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And Cymbeline - bless her heart - is down by the fence, still busy making tea for the workers.
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Too busy making a dead set at young Mr Merrivale.
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She went to the kitchen, where the dedicated housekeeper was busy making batches of tiny delicacies for tomorrow's drinks.
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Most were writing up reports between assignments, or busy making arrangements by telephone.
■ NOUN
decision
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Discuss the reasons why accrual accounting methods are not appropriate to future decision making .
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We have already discussed theory's peculiar role in moral decision making .
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Qualitative factors are often influential in the decision making process.
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S.U. was to be encouraged, eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent.
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However, case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making .
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There appears to be a universal crisis in centralised decision making and considerable public alienation from bureaucracy.
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The decision making process can be likened to one of those great lumbering steam locomotives seen in Western films.
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Despite these criticisms, recent approaches to decision making have sought to pursue the rational approach.
facility
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All rooms have central heating, colour television, tea/coffee making facilities , en suite or private shower.
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All rooms have colour TV/tea/coffee making facilities .
love
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About Stephen making love to me?
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Abruptly he sat up, away from her, and Leith knew he had gone off any idea of making love to her.
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I can imagine his making love to me and it doesn't disgust me.
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Tawno's so good at making love it's no wonder women fall for him like a ton of bricks.
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They're not interested in one-night stands - and they even want to know what making love is like for girls.
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He had seen two people making love .
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Making love to you was like making love to a flame.
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My secret problem is I fantasise about her making love to me.
people
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He had a real ability for making people decide exactly what they were trying to say and do.
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Businesses are closing and making people redundant.
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It need not necessarily reduce fishing effort, but it is about making people in the fishing industry unemployed.
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He was a funny man and good at making people laugh.
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There is no evidence, to date, that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers.
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We're playing our part in making people feel safer.
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The Profitboss is totally objective in making people decisions in business.
policy
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If we value independence in foreign policy making , let us not forget what happened in 1940.
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The results will be set in the context of a study of the history of planning theory and urban policy making .
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It is in this kind of work that the distinction between policy making and implementation becomes so unclear.
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There are important questions that should not be brushed aside about the place of altruism in policy making .
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The passing of an Act, though, is not the end of policy making .
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This obviously makes for difficulties in distinguishing policy making and implementation, and for identifying implementation issues and problems.
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But social policy making must also be seen as a political process.
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Again, these subordinate bodies might be described as being concerned with implementation and not with policy making .
process
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Qualitative factors are often influential in the decision making process .
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A central decision making process involving Inspectors and civilian decision makers was established and developed ....
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The decision making process can be likened to one of those great lumbering steam locomotives seen in Western films.
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Voice over Whilst drinking habits and drinking houses have changed, the beer making process hasn't.
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Watermark an impression incorporated in the paper making process showing the name of the paper and/or the company logo.
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Laid paper with a watermark pattern showing the wire marks used in the paper making process .
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It was pointed out that accounting information is only a part of the input to the decision making process .
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Wire the wire mesh used at the wet end of the paper making process .
■ VERB
involve
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At one extreme, the process of interpretation will simply involve the making of inferences from two or more documents.
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But judges should not be involved in the making of decisions for which they are unsuited.
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Enzymatic catalysis involves the breaking and making of different chemical bonds.
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With fewer mistakes, and staff involved in decision making , everyone benefits.
use
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The purpose of evaluation is to collect and analyse information that can be used for rational decision making .
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Now most is used in the making of paper.
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The house was used for the making of cloth until well into the seventeenth century.
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The G.L.C. could not use its grant making powers to achieve a social policy which was inconsistent with these obligations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eleanor Coppola wrote a book about the making of "Apocalypse Now."
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Many things can interfere with effective decision making .
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quilt-making
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the making of a will compliance with the following formalities is now necessary: The will must be in writing.
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He had a real ability for making people decide exactly what they were trying to say and do.
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In Britain the railways not only transported but considerably stimulated the making of bricks.
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In spite of the obvious dangers, several more people succeeded in making the crossing and gaining a few moments of fame.
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It has participated in the making of a video by the Banking Information Service on wise ways to use credit.
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Marketing research is fundamentally about the acquisition and analysis of information required for the making of marketing decisions.
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They have trained-in a succession of concepts over the years: decision making , then situational leadership, and then contingency theory.
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Whether senior buyers are able at the same time to exercise an influencing and decision making role will depend on organisational factors.